When my 93 year-old grandmother had already tried to stick a metal fork into her 2nd pacemaker (The Lord had not yet heard her prayers for His compassion), my dad looked me in the eye like he never had before and said, “I don’t want to go like that.”
She lived miserably for the next 3 years in the same old nursing home before septicemia finally laid her down. Septicemia, when she’d survived a bout with Guillian Beret 20 years earlier and then the type of diabetes that caused the loss of one eye and her sight in the other? She survived for 31 years after the slow, horrible death of my grandfather (1975, inoperable lung cancer). Also, the slow, excrutiating death of a 15 year-old grandson (1984, brain tumor) and we never heard her complain about whether or not life was treating her and her family fairly.
I’m not sure if my dad intends for us to fly him to the Netherlands or to find him another Dr. Kevorkian if a worst-case scenario eventually plays out but I can understand his concern because I too, would be looking for another way should I find myself in my grandparents’ or cousin’s shoes someday.
One would think that the US Constitution could provide an alternative to gross indecencies suffered by innocent human beings whose quality of life is beyond the point of no return. Whose only remaining choices in their pursuit of happiness lead to releasing surviving loved ones and themselves from the burdens of long term, pointless suffering in the name of God or that it is God’s will. I wouldn’t want to see a dog suffer and die the way my grandparents did and as the Executor of my father’s estate, I vow to do my father’s (dear old Dad) will above anything else...Mom’s too. That’s not a threat, it’s a promise!
Second pacemaker?
Could she not have refused medical treatment instead if she didn’t want to linger?
Instead people ask others to kill them and put that on their consciences and to their account?
What’s the point of taking medical treatment to prolong your life if you then turn around and ask others to kill you because you didn’t like the way it fell out?
By what authority do you speak for God, about His alleged failings?