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What are your thoughts on this, Freepers? Should there be a change in the law?
1 posted on 07/21/2023 11:04:55 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

It sounds horrible no matter what. I don’t know what I would do.
This is a walk in my shoes kind of thing. If I was going to die, I wouldn’t cop out and have my wife kill me. I’d boot up 25x the normal heroin dose and chase the dragon to Valhalla…


2 posted on 07/21/2023 11:07:58 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: RandFan

While there is life, there is hope........................


3 posted on 07/21/2023 11:16:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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The new defense: “I was just giving her assistance in dying.”
No dice. This cannot be allowed to stand. She’s not here to serve as a witness in this case!

Even if she has signed a document asking him to kill her, the murder would still be illegal.

It’s also wrong for a doctor to kill someone who requests it, even if there’s a law that “allows” it.


4 posted on 07/21/2023 11:18:21 AM PDT by I want the USA back (A man is not a woman. A woman is not a man. There is no in-between or undefined middle. Cat = cat.)
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To: RandFan

Hospice workers do it on request quite often.


5 posted on 07/21/2023 11:18:41 AM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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We all know what we SHOULD do, none of us knows what we WOULD do. Cancer is such a painful disease and pain exhausts the soul. I won’t judge this man, that’s only for God to do.


6 posted on 07/21/2023 11:20:25 AM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore………)
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It’s a tough call when you personally see a loved one suffer tremendously in their utter misery day after day after day and strict laws that differ state to state about sedating them....


7 posted on 07/21/2023 11:20:55 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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When I had a horrible gall bladder attack in my early 40’s,
I was begging my wife to shoot me. But we were in a ski chalet and there was no gun there. It was unbearable pain. I drank lot of scotch hoping it would numb the pain. But just got drunk with pain. Our chalet did not have a phone. This episode was in early 1980’s before we had cell phones. Only good thing about my 3 gall bladder attacks was the paid suddenly disappeared and there was no lingering pain. They removed my gall bladder in 1990. Had no issues at all since that surgery.


8 posted on 07/21/2023 11:21:21 AM PDT by entropy12 (Career politicians are there to build wealth. Trump is there to lose wealth to serve people.)
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Change the laws on sedating those with terminal illness. Too many now will not sedate no matter how misrable patients are.


12 posted on 07/21/2023 11:28:23 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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“She suffered from PMS and obesity. The past two weeks she had a terrible cold that was causing her tremendous discomfort. It got so bad that she didn’t even have the energy to do the dishes or cook dinner. I couldn’t watch her go through that anymore.”


17 posted on 07/21/2023 12:01:15 PM PDT by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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A guy I used to work with once said, “My wife was having a lot of trouble breathing last night. I finally released the pillow off her face.”


19 posted on 07/21/2023 12:06:06 PM PDT by Gnome1949
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No.

There is no way of knowing that this is not actually murder.

Once being suffocated she had no way of indicating she changed her mind.

“Assisted suicide” laws are covers for murderers.

They are incentives to suicide.

And if they involve others they destroy others.

Unless you are completely paralyzed you are able to look yourself without “help” in any number of ways. You DO NOT need assistance and should not be allowed to have it.

Interesting he did not choose a kinder way to kill her. An overdose, care in monoxide, shooting her in the head. No. He had to smother her.


20 posted on 07/21/2023 12:08:06 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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I read this article, and my first question was why didn’t her doctors provide better pain management?
This man should not have been put in this situation.
It’s possible that the doctors had already provided the maximum dosage of pain relief they were legally allowed to do. She should have been in a hospice. Sad that the surviving spouse felt obligated to put himself in legal peril.


23 posted on 07/21/2023 12:25:58 PM PDT by lee martell
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At least he waited until she was seriously ill

Some spouses don’t even wait that long


32 posted on 07/21/2023 2:37:49 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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Should have drug her dying butt to Canada ... they’ll kill you at the drop of a hat!!!!


37 posted on 07/21/2023 3:45:25 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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