The day will come. It may be 50 years from today or it could be next month but the day will arrive when you are sitting in a doctor’s office or lying in a hospital bed, when you’ll hear the words, “There’s little we can do for you. We will try to control your pain as much as possible.
“You are dying.”
You may already be picturing your last days and hours — at home, in your own bed, surrounded by your loved ones, free of pain, ready to go. But that vision is wishful thinking. Most of us will draw our last breath in a hospital bed. Some of us will die alone, while many will be lost in a medicated fog.
Genetic counselling and in vitro fertilization has revolutionized how life begins. Now many think Canada is overdue for an honest public debate about how life ends.
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The worst possible thing that could happen would be for euthanasia to be legalized.
No physician has ever been convicted of a crime for administering morphine to someone in pain at the end of their life. Never.
And Kervorkian was sent to prison.
Everything works fine.
Fred Thompson told Tim Russert on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday that he DOES NOT support a Human Life amendment. That position is part of the GOP platform. Here’s what the 2004 GOP platform says:
"We must keep our pledge to the first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence. That is why we say the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and we endorse legislation to make it clear that the 14th Amendment's protections apply to unborn children. Our purpose is to have legislative and judicial protection of that right against those who perform abortions." Here’s what Thompson said about it lifted from today’s Meet The Press transcript:
Fred Thompson says "No" to Human Life Amendment
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My advice is to get a long term care health plan where the insured gets to select their options for care. The worst thing is to end up having to forfeit everything to be stuck somewhere under Medicaid.
With staffing shortages, you can bet your last dollar, more people pass away on the weekends.
(and they aren't kept clean either).
Floridians need to have a plan or they'll be sorry. No, I don't sell long term care insurance but I strongly recommend it for Floridians so you can select where you want to be if you are unable to care for yourself.
Don't end up at Medicaid's mercy. Medicaid's good for the poor and the young but not for the elderly. That's my opinion. FV
See my last re: your Dying to address thread.