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To: JRadcliffe
Thereby putting the medical profession in the business of prescribing killing doses. Assisted suicide isn't healthcare. There isn't anything keeping someone who wants to off themselves from doing just that.
63 posted on 11/17/2001 6:29:35 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun
"Thereby putting the medical profession in the business of prescribing killing doses."

That is certainly a stretch. It doe not put the ENTIRE medical establishment in the business of perscribing killing doses. It give doctors the OPTION to do so under very limited circumstances.

Assisted suicide isn't healthcare."

Have you ever watch someone die slowly and painfully? I have. My father's doctor warned me that there would come a point at which NO AMOUNT of pain medication would relieve my father distress. It was PAINFUL, and I was giving him hopped up doses of morphine almost every 15 minutes!

Until you have experienced or witnessed it yourself, you cannot speak with authority on this matter. Again, it is a matter of choice. I do not take kindly to ignorance rapped in "Compassion" or some delusional moral high ground.

65 posted on 11/17/2001 6:39:01 PM PST by JRadcliffe
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