I guess she doesn’t realise that SHE is ‘just going to die anyway’ too.
I am afraid that many, many people think this way. Our state has legalized what they call, “death with dignity”...meaning if you choose to fight your cancer, you have NO dignity, I guess.
My mother in law has many health problems, and I am constantly afraid that one day her husband will legally kill her, if she gets to be too much trouble for him! He is a great believer in “sparing misery” to his animals and to people. Actually, he is sparing himself, masking it as compassion.
Thread by Clintonfatigued.
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan as an aide to former President Bill Clinton said that federal legislation criminalizing doctor-assisted suicide was a “fairly terrible idea,” according to newly disclosed documents.
Kagan’s hand-written note was included among 46,500 pages of records the William J. Clinton Presidential Library released yesterday. The documents shed new light on Kagan’s views on social issues including affirmative action, gun control and cloning.
The assisted-suicide note was prompted by Oregon’s 1997 enactment of a right-to-die law, which stirred an ultimately unsuccessful move by congressional Republicans to override the statute with a federal ban. In her note, after suggesting the possibility of Clinton backing such a law, Kagan immediately shot down the idea.
“This is a fairly terrible idea, but I know Begala likes it,” she said in the 1998 note, referring to Clinton adviser Paul Begala.
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