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So why not just give them a heavy morphine drip and spare them those few days of 'less agony'? They're going to die. Two days in a hospital bed is not going to make any difference except to the hospital bill. I don't want to be thirst to death, I want to OD on my own terms.

Of course, I can't find anywhere in the Constitution where it says I have the right to this action, and Catholics say suicide is very bad, so I guess I should get 'talibaned' out of my right to die with dignity.

Without comment on your decision, I have to comment on your reference to the Constitution. The Constitution does not GIVE US rights, so you won't find any allowance for your actions. The Constitution DOES take away ALL rights from the Federal government to take away our rights, except when explicitly given an exception. That's theory. In practice, the Constitution has no meaning.

Since the beginning of time people have been able to take their own lives by a variety of methods. Today those individuals have even more choices. There is absolutely no need to create laws to force other people to kill you. You want to die? Buy a gun and a bullet and do it yourself. Hospitals are not killing fields nor should health professionals be made executioners.

During my fathers last few days alive, he was in pain from his cancer, so the docs gave him some morphine...this relieved him for a while, but within about two hours, the pain came back, and was worse...so they put him on a heavy morphine drip, heavy enough to take away his pain...

But, as the docs warned me, that heavy of a morphine drip, while relieving dads pain, would almost certainly produce a coma in him, a coma from which he would never recover...

So the choice was, did I allow him to be concious, and in terrible pain, or did I allow him to have enough pain medication to relieve his pain, tho it might hasten his death...it was my choice, and my choice alone...my mother had Alzheimers, and was not able to make the choice...my only sibling was already dead...so it was up to me...I knew my dad....I knew he did not want pain, he did not want to live on machines, ,he did not want to be force fed...

He wanted to die, when his time had come, to die in peace...so I chose for the continuous heavy morphine drip to continue...and dad died one day later, quietly, ,peacefully, and free from pain...

There are those who want to call that murder...they feel my dad should have continue on in pain, that suffering is good for you...

I could not bear to see him cry, to hear him howl in pain...I am at peace with my decision, just as I allowed him to die in peace...

I am the one who has to live with my decision...and I will always feel I made the only decision possible...