Define "terminally ill"
Let the “slippery slope/fundamental and personal right” arguments begin!
Turning doctors into killers.
“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?
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.
And so we go from permitting it to requiring it.
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.
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’?
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...
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
Hell, just hand out a bottle of morphine and a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Been happening since the dawn of man. Patients routinely can choose a lethal dose of various meds, and do.
Suicide is against the law! And they will prosecute....somebody!
Once I reach “that” point, hook me up to a morphine drip and let me control the flow..........
God is pro life. I doubt that He agrees at all.
Just “another way” to thin out the herd.
NM list PING!
I may not PING for all New Mexico articles. To see New Mexico articles by topic click here: New Mexico Topics
To see NM articles by keyword, click here: New Mexico Keywords
To see the NM Message Page, click here: New Mexico Messages
(The NM list is available on my FR homepage for anyone to use. Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
(For ABQ Journal articles requiring a subscription, scroll down to the bottom of the page to view the article for free after answering a question or watching a short video commercial.)