| Blueblaze |
06-01-2023 10:17 AM |
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Originally Posted by Tvflguy
(Post 2222598)
THANK YOU for this link. I will be contacting our State Reps to Try to push this thru. Hopefully The Villages folks will do the same if you feel strongly about this as I do.
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I would fully support this law, if it included a provision that doctors must never be required or coerced into doing it. Since it apparently has no provision for a doctor's conscience, I could not support it as written.
Even with the provision, it will become a slippery slope to routine euthanasia, exactly like we do with animals. We are not animals.
As I look back on all the pets in my life, I realize that the majority of those lives ended with euthanasia, and I can't honestly say for certain that none of them were for my own convenience. Our last dog was merely very old, and probably merely suffered the same arthritic pains we all feel all the time. He was on a lot of pain meds. He seemed very sad and tired of living, but I have often wondered what his answer would have been if I could have asked him if he wanted to die. He adored me, and I worry that his answer might have been that any pain was worth another minute with me, just holding his head.
If we do this, we must go into it knowing that it is a slippery slope. We must resolve to prevent it from ever becoming anything like the 12 horses killed at the Kentucky Derby this year, for merely having an injury that required more money to fix than the horse was worth -- or even like the involuntary release from pain that I gave to my dog Shiner. |
