[Byron_the_Aussie]

..all she wants now is to live the last of her life with dignity and to spend it with friends and family, especially her kids," Williams said. "If that means using marijuana to manage the pain, so be it"...

Where's the 'dignity', in spending your final days in a dope haze?

[RJCogburn]

Where's the 'dignity', in spending your final days in a dope haze?

Well, mate, if there is significant pain and the patient isn't smoking dope, then he/she may be on 'legal' opiates which may create their own haze.

Fact is, though, that many people with pain, using either opiates or dope, are not in a haze at all.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Where's the 'dignity', in spending your final days in a dope haze?

I suppose you'd find more dignity in screaming and grovelling in constant, intense, unbearable pain?

[capt. norm]

"Where's the 'dignity', in spending your final days in a dope haze?" "

It's the dignity of being able to hug your child without being distracted by screaming pain that won't go away!

How hard is that to understand?

It's easy to preach from the mountain top when it isn't you.

I you were writhing in pain, which would you rather have, some relief from the pain, or your vaunted "I'm not in a dope haze" dignity?

[SouthernFreebird]

Where's the 'dignity', in spending your final days in a dope haze?

I'd say alot of us spent our youth in a daze. If ever anyone needed to be in a daze it would be those in pain from dying. If smoking weed gives them relief and some giggles along the way then whats it to you or me?

[Rifleman]

I sincerely hope that those who would deny a palliative drug to those in pain, will die screaming.

[FITZ]

Where's the 'dignity', in spending your final days in a dope haze?

A lot of the legal stuff doctors prescribe does that anyway. Even for routine surgeries they give stuff that puts people in a dope haze.

[Cynderbean]

"Where is the dignity in spending your final days in a dope haze?"

I have watched 4 family members die of cancer. A "dignified death" from the disease is an oxymoron no matter what the treatment. Well 3 of them actually died of the disease. One couldn't stand the pain and shot himself.

If dancing naked in the street, eating cockroaches, or smoking marijuana could have given them any brief respite from the agony so be it, screw the dignity.

[auggy]

"Where's the 'dignity', in spending your final days in a dope haze? "

There probably isn't any, but dying pain free and dying a death with escrutiating pain are not difficult to choose. Morphine, which is legal is much more powerful drug than pot. If pot works better, so be it.

[Protagoras]

Where's the 'dignity', in spending your final days in a dope haze?

More dignified to have your head in the toilet with your lunch all over the place.