Posted on 06/03/2007 11:42:27 PM PDT by monomaniac
If it’s good enough for Terri Schiavo, why can’t it be good enough for terminally ill people?
Wasn’t it Michael Schiavo’s lawyer who kept saying that death by starvation/dehydration is a “peaceful and gentle” way to die?
Yep, they kept saying that it was “euphoric.” Although, they never bothered to explain how someone they referred to as “brain dead” could feel euphoria.
“would allow adults who are diagnosed with less than six months to live to ask a physician for the drugs to kill themselves”
My best friend, an Army Cobra gunship pilot, was sent home from active duty in 1974 with terminal liver cancer and given 6 months to live. A year of exercise and care got him into shape to get married, have 3 kids, found 3 businesses, and finally retire. The cancer took him this past November 32 years after they gave him 6 months to live. How could any doctor make a determination of how long you’ve got?
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