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1 posted on 01/13/2014 2:17:35 PM PST by xzins
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“This court cannot envision a right more fundamental, more private or more integral to the liberty, safety and happiness of a New Mexican than the right of a competent, terminally ill patient to choose aid in dying,”

Define "terminally ill"

2 posted on 01/13/2014 2:18:27 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins

Let the “slippery slope/fundamental and personal right” arguments begin!


3 posted on 01/13/2014 2:19:16 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
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To: xzins
About four years ago my mother had major heart problems. The hospital had to put her on a respirator. The nurses spoke to the family and asked us to let her go. She hated the respirator and tried to pull it out. She asked the hospital just to let her die. Well, she lived and you never know she went through a dark period of her life.
If she had been under the care of these doctors, they may have given her the death pills.
I am afraid there will be doctors that will quickly dispense these death pills.
6 posted on 01/13/2014 2:25:47 PM PST by rawhide
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To: xzins

Turning doctors into killers.


8 posted on 01/13/2014 2:27:22 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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“Nash found that the right exists under the New Mexico Constitution, which prohibits the state from depriving a person of life, liberty or property without due process.”

What an irrational decision. How can preventing homicide be in any way construed as depriving someone of life, liberty or property without due process?


14 posted on 01/13/2014 2:39:53 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (There Is Still A Very Hot War On Terror, Just Not On The MSM. Rantburg.com)
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To: xzins
FWIW, Robert Heinlein had one of his most well-loved characters asserted that suicide is a fundamental right in the first chapter of Time Enough For Love.

Of course, he (RAH) was writing about a future time in which the lifespan of humans could be extended almost infinitely; the character in question (Lazarus Long) had by that time been alive well over two hundred years, and was tired of living.

15 posted on 01/13/2014 2:41:37 PM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: xzins

And so we go from permitting it to requiring it.


18 posted on 01/13/2014 2:50:45 PM PST by Mercat
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To: xzins

Good for him, my father did it the hard way by refusing to eat ot drink anything until he died after 2 weeks.

His knees had gone bad and he wanted out and who in the family has any right to stop him, he was 92.


20 posted on 01/13/2014 2:51:47 PM PST by dalereed
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Ruling says they can, not that they have to.

Doctors can perform abortions, or choose not to.

Also the distinction between the physician doing the killing (ie pushing a bolus of morphine or potassium) versus giving the patient the means to do it themselves. Latter happens regularly. Any diabetic can inject themselves with an entire vial of insulin and kill themselves. Or ingest their one month supply of pain meds with the same result. Is then the prescribing of these meds ‘assisted suicide’?


27 posted on 01/13/2014 3:05:46 PM PST by tips up (Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.)
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To: xzins

What the heck is happening in New Mexico?

I was born there, grew up there, went to college there. Moved away years ago to work (no jobs in my field). Now, I don’t want to go back, except to see the magnificent scenery of the northern part of the state...


28 posted on 01/13/2014 3:06:49 PM PST by LaRueLaDue
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this is a complicated issue having dealt with several people died in my immediate family and cared for them day in day outout

what really kills someone terminal slow death is it the accelerated dope doses or lack of food or water or all of the above

there is no simple one-size-fits-all answer like freepers often desire

when my time comes and it will sooner rather than later nearly 60..... just give me the good dope

make me comfortable
do not have me lying in my own feces or urine

Keep my mouth wet.....and spray me some Dr tichenors or scope for death breath.....which those know...know is distinguishable and awful

....family.....my lovely southern wife particularly

And at least one hot Ukrainian nurse for sponge baths

At home with my Rott

Its a plan I think

Much as I drive I will likely go out as a metal sandwich

I am not against a kind push into heaven for those days or hours away who are in unalleviated pain

You know what kills most cancer folks is either starvation...cancer takes the food for itself

Or thirst

Or the stuff kills a vital organ....less likly


29 posted on 01/13/2014 3:07:03 PM PST by wardaddy (wifey instructede today to grow chapter president beard back again....i wonder why?)
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To: xzins

Hell, just hand out a bottle of morphine and a bottle of Jack Daniels.


32 posted on 01/13/2014 3:12:09 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: xzins
The doctor will see you now.
47 posted on 01/13/2014 3:42:31 PM PST by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: xzins

Been happening since the dawn of man. Patients routinely can choose a lethal dose of various meds, and do.


56 posted on 01/13/2014 4:39:31 PM PST by CodeToad (When ignorance rules a person's decision they are resorting to superstition.)
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To: xzins

Suicide is against the law! And they will prosecute....somebody!


63 posted on 01/13/2014 4:46:40 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: xzins

Once I reach “that” point, hook me up to a morphine drip and let me control the flow..........


69 posted on 01/13/2014 4:55:17 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Miss Muffit suffered from arachnophobia.....)
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God is pro life. I doubt that He agrees at all.


78 posted on 01/13/2014 7:48:19 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Just “another way” to thin out the herd.


79 posted on 01/13/2014 9:36:56 PM PST by ourworldawry
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Why don't we give *New* Mexico back to *Old* Mexico? That way anyone who wanted to die could be beheaded by a drug cartel and their head could be displayed in a public place...just as is now done in cities like Nuevo Laredo.
93 posted on 01/14/2014 10:43:38 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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