I have seen people whither away from cancer and if I had my druthers, assisted suicide doesn’t seem like such a bad way to go if I want to be honest.
Gasping for breaths, gurgling against the inevitable. Where the worst pain is the pain of watching my family around me see me suffer and slip into a shell of myself.
I can see the appeal and won’t pretend it’s not something I would think about.
Kevorkian was looney, but the topic of assisted suicide is not something I would discount as a means to die with dignity (having my kids wipe my ass is not dignifying to me).
I think the problem that most of us here have, is that very quickly the "right to die" becomes "duty to die."
“I can see the appeal and won’t pretend it’s not something I would think about.
Kevorkian was looney, but the topic of assisted suicide is not something I would discount as a means to die with dignity (having my kids wipe my ass is not dignifying to me).”
Agree 100%
If I get that way, I’ve told Mrs BwanaNdege to get me a couch down by the lake, like Burgess Meredith had in “Grumpier Old Men”’
Leave me there with my fishing tackle, and maybe some bait.
Come back in the Spring, sweep up what’s left of me, put it in a pine box, say a few kind words over the remains, smile at the good memories, please forget the bad.
Oh, maybe bury me with a box of red wigglers to give them a head start. I fugure that I owe them something for all the fishing I’ve done.
I won’t be in that box!
Another problem I have is the "right to die" could end up being twisted by the government into the "duty to die" real quickly.
For terminally ill patients who are suffering I can understand the desire to have the ability to end that suffering. But, that is a decision which should never be in the hands of a physician or the government.