Posted on 09/30/2007 10:01:27 AM PDT by wagglebee
She was 62?
You have got to be kidding...
I’ll be 62 in 2010...
My life is still in the teenage state...
She was stuborn? in control?...hardly...
Stuborn is not wanting to miss out on anything...
I want to know who my granddaughters marry and what color the bridesmaids dresses are..
My oldest grandchild is 12 but I intend to dance at their weddings..
This woman was a loser...a failer.. and a coward..
She gave up and gave in and didnt bother to fight...
Life is a gift from God...nobody is to take it..
Its too late for her..but dont you fail to have gumption..
God satisfies with long life...I wont be satisfied till at least 88..
And then some more years...should Jesus tarry..
My mother died of uterine cancer and having spent the final days with her, there was no dignity in the way she died. She suffered greatly.
WOW....I guess she didn't suffer hard enough for you.
Lovelle fits the mold of many FReepers. Her life belongs to her... and not the church, the state or the courts. It certainly doesn't belong to the zealots here who would have her suffer in great pain so that their agenda can be fulfilled. It's Lovelle call.
The only people I know, that I can personally can say died with dignity were those who died sudden....my mom died sudden age 44 of a brain aneurysm, my dad in law age 66 had a major heart attack in his sleep and my dear friend died age 20 in a naval accident. Everyone else I know has suffered mighty through horrible“life support†in the name of LIFE when they had no quality of life left.
Opponents say assisted suicide violates the Hippocratic tradition of "First, do no harm" and undermines the doctor-patient relationship by turning physicians from healers into accomplices of death.
Some drs. have no problem with abortions. Where's their Hippocratic oath on that.
I am sorry to hear about your mother.
However, a person either has dignity or they don’t. There is a world of difference between having dignity and acting dignified, there are plenty of people who act and look dignified who don’t have a shred of dignity. Dying with dignity is accepting what God chooses for us regardless of how difficult it might be. The Jews who were starving and ragged as they were forced into the gas chambers had far more dignity than the Nazi villains who would later dress in their best uniforms and commit suicide rather than be captured.
The medical profession has been moving away from that principle since 1973.
So are you comparing the woman in the story to a Nazi?
It is her right to commit suicide. However, those who don’t value death would quickly impose this ethos on those who do not want to die. It is, after all, an easy way to empty expensive nursing homes and save money in socialized medicine.
Personally, I think the better solution for this woman would have been far better pain medication. If it hurts too much to live, then we should do more so it doesn’t hurt too much.
It comforts me to know that the abortionist will get theirs in the end. When they come before the Almighty.
Do you have any first hand experience with someone dying who’s body has been ravaged with tumors? This is not a tv or movie death where they simply close their eyes and are gone.
It doesn’t sound beautiful, it sounds gruesome. Having lost my mother in June after she battled a terminal illness for nearly two years I find this disgusting.
Perhaps with declining birth rates and declining abortion rates, those abortionists will shift to the euthenasia field?
Then you are a stronger man than me,partner.
No, I am not comparing this woman to Holocaust victims. I was pointing out there there is a huge difference between acting dignified and having dignity.
They already are.
It'll be right up their alley.
Yes.
I’d like to address your question of why she didn’t wait longer, before taking her own life.
The article said that she was already having painful swallowing, and she was afraid that if she waited any longer, she would not be able to swallow the meds. I guess they don’t allow the drug to be given by IV.
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