[ClancyJ]

All of this talk about euthanasia actually makes me sick.

How dumb do people have to be to be willing to place their family in the hands of men to decide when to kill them?

How dumb to think it will never be a member of your family that someone will decide needs to be done away with - against your own wishes. All they need to do, is have a hospital policy that withdraws care at a certain point - then you can move the person or not to another facility.

The purpose of this is never for kindness for the victim or the family - it will be purely financial.

Of course, they will couch it in kindness/relieving suffering/allowing a peaceful exit - but, nevertheless, it is killing. And we are all suckers to fall for that rhetoric.

Why should we allow any to say others have to die - they do not have that authority and it is not their call.

[8mmMauser]

I suspect it may be happening more often than one might think. An elderly family member calls the hospital, goes before anyone around thinks about it, and suddenly dies. Or a family member who is influencing the patient goes ahead before anyone suspects and acts even if foolishly, and it is over. Then it is easiest to just deny and move on.

I can think of two close family members, long distances apart, and a good friend where these circumstances occurred, each one a surprise death. Am I suspicious? yes of each one. But, naively, I wasn't at the time.

[floriduh voter]

We need to fix this major veering off course by the U.S. I certainly don't savor thinking about death every single day, particularly murder but what choice do we have? Apathy will get us more forced exits.

The good news is that I'm getting my second wind finally. I hope other Terri supporters are feeling somewhat better so that we can forge ahead.

We shall see what springs up through grassroots activism.