As a straight GOP voter, I voted YES on this one.
I personally witnessed my father-in-law die of stomach cancer last year. He had unbearable pain, kept vomiting even water much less any food, and it was simply devastating to me and my wife to watch him suffer like that. The doctors told us the cancer had spread through his intestine, liver and gall bladder and there was nothing humanly possible to save him. But they could not euthanize him! He was obviously too weak to kill himself. This is simply disgraceful.
Why wasn’t he on morphine or pain killers?
If a person understands that each individual is an eternal soul wearing a mortal body, then every life is authored by the Supreme. It is the job of God to decide when people die. It is not the job of people themselves or those around them. Of course, a person can always decide to commit suicide. But it is a great evil and should never ever be encouraged by any level of government or the medical profession.
If a person voluntarily stops eating and drinking they will die within one week or less, especially if they are suffering from a terminal illness. Anyone can do it and no one can stop them short of forcing re-hydration on them. If a person has signed papers that they do not want it, they will not get it.
And with pain medication it is not painful; quite different when someone is forcibly starved against their will as was Terri Schiavo. I have seen several people pass from this world in that manner.
Anyone who thinks that euthanasia (which is really what doc assisted suicide is) should read what’s happened in the last few years in Europe. That will happen here if doc assisted suicide becomes legal everywhere.
Useless eaters will be offed, I guarantee it. It is abortion’s evil twin.
I had a similar experience with my dad.I knew as a good catholic he wouldn’t have supported this when he was well, but when his body failed him he was left unable to communicate his wishes. I support the idea as a concept, but I have a problem with 1) forcing doctors to participating violating their oath, and 2) making it possible for avaricious family member to persuade a dying
member of the family to prematurely ‘pull the trigger’
out of greed.