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Posted on 05/30/2009 11:54:33 AM PDT by wagglebee
A man who was featured in ads and on TV opposing Washington state’s assisted suicide Iniative 1000 died of ALS last week.
The group True Compassion Advocates says John Peyton died at home on Thursday, the same day Linda Fleming of Sequim woman became the first person to die under the "Death with Dignity" law.
Eileen Geller, president of True Compassion Advocates, a group that was against the law, called Peyton a hero in life and in death.
“He showed us how to live with real dignity and die naturally and comfortably. He literally gave his last breaths to advocate for those at risk for assisted suicide. John Peyton demonstrates what I have seen in thousands of dying patients over 25 years working as a hospice nurse - that no one needs to die in pain or uncomfortably, and that people with life-limiting illnesses need competent, supportive care, not lethal drugs."
Voters approved the assisted suicide law in November by a nearly 60 percent vote, making Washington the second state to have a voter-approved assisted suicide law. It is based on a law adopted by Oregon voters in 1997.
And that is true dignity.
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It's a point of view. An opinion. Nothing more.
What an awful way to go.
So, in your opinion, a person who has lived a life of total indignity can somehow acquire dignity if they die a certain way?
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Quite the leap of logic. Hope you didn't tear anything important.
How is that a leap? Is dignity found in the way a person lives or the way a person dies?
Why do you find them mutually exclusive? Both offer opportunities, eh?
Because they ARE mutually exclusive. What is the “opportunity” in death if it’s not to demonstrate the dignity of facing EXACTLY what God intended for us?
When you use the word 'or' in an argument, it indicates mutual exclusivity, grasshopper.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him.
Yes, I said they are.
Right. You did.
Death is death. It's messy. It's exact. Well defined. Every man is destined to suffer it.
Men, being men, have an opinion about it.
For me, I think a choice about it is as natural as breathing.
Let me ask this. If a warrior on the battlefield charges forward, knowing the result will most likely be his death, do you have an ill opinion about the lad?
Absolutely not.
That's a much better way to go than the one he heroically fought against.
Prov. 26:1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
I have decided I will not fade away with ALS, if I get it, and I won’t be anybody’s burden. It’s my decision to make, nobody elses.
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