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Originally Posted by Golfingnut
Reading material.... Euthanasia suicide mercy-killing right-to-die physician assisted suicide living wills research
I visited my father in a full care nursing/hospas home where he hung on for seven years. He had a massive stroke leaving him in a vegetative state. The SYSTEM slowly drained away all the income saved over 50 years. Our mother refused to allow us kids to help finanualy and due to taxes and upkeep cost lost her home. After years, she ended up in public housing, broke and alone. I ask that I be allowed to have control of my destiny. What I do not want is:
1. Suffer after any decent quality of life is gone.
2. Have all I have worked my life for be taken from me for care I do not want.
3. YOU, THEY, THEM taking control of my end of life decision.
Some will say if I wish to end my life, I am depressed. BS. I could type pages of justification why assisted death would be the right thing for me.
We all get on our soap box for freedom of speech, right to bear arms, religion and so many other issues. Yet freedom for end of life decision, that for me is the most personal decision of all, is taken away from us. How sad is that. |
In another thread, I may have given the impression that I'm against it. Well, I'm not. I think there can be a place for it under the right circumstances.