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To: LetHerRIP
You better write it down if that's what you want.

The former governor of Oregon signed such a statement. The odd thing about it was that when he got cancer and faced chemo and a lingering death, he decided that he wanted to live. And took every extraordinary means to stay alive as long as possible.

27 posted on 03/23/2005 8:56:17 AM PST by grammarman
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To: grammarman

Which OR governor was that, not that I would recognize his name?


74 posted on 03/23/2005 9:25:19 AM PST by Theodore R. (Why does the GOP continue to fiddle while Terri burns? Is it cowardice?)
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To: grammarman

"The former governor of Oregon signed such a statement. The odd thing about it was that when he got cancer and faced chemo and a lingering death, he decided that he wanted to live. And took every extraordinary means to stay alive as long as possible."

My sister, who was a neurologist who advised her terminal patients not to use extreme measures to prolong their lives, also changed her mind about it quickly enough when she got ALS. I think, in the end, most of us will want to live vs. the alternative (extreme pain cases may be different).


149 posted on 03/23/2005 10:06:53 AM PST by Serenissima Venezia (An engineer turning teacher (unless I come back to my senses!))
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