Subj : Death Wish
To   : LEE LOFASO
From : BOB KLAHN
Date : Wed Nov 12 2014 20:06:00


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 LL> Brittany Maynard was terminally ill, given only a few
 LL> short months to live, and was in much pain and suffering.
 LL> She ended her life in Oregon, one of five states in the
 LL> US that allows doctors to help assist the terminally
 LL> ill of sound mind to do so.

 LL> Our society chooses to condem people who decide to end
 LL> their own lives, and forbids doctors and other health care
 LL> workers to help them do it.  Even though five states have

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 LL> When it becomes an impossibility, or undue hardship, to
 LL> maintain a quality of life worth living, then an individual
 LL> should have an absolute right to end his/her own life.


 This argument has been going on a very long time. Long ago I
 read a report on it, and it said there is no such thing as pain
 that can't be controlled. They gave England as an example, where
 the question didn't even come up.

 You see, in England they can give heroin to patients in extreme
 pain. That is a big difference.

 I don't know if it's true that there is no such thing as pain
 that can't be alleviated, but I do know there is pain that can
 be alleviated, but the drugs that do it are either illegal, or
 so controlled you can't give them enough.

 Then there's the fear of making terminal patients drug addicts.
 The other fear is, the drugs will shorten the patient's life.
 Chose, 6 weeks of extreme pain, or 4 weeks free from pain. Not
 hard by my thinking.

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 LL> What about a baby born without a brain?  Would it be okay
 LL> for a doctor or a nurse to off the baby?  I mean, the baby

 An anacelephic baby doesn't live long and doesn't suffer.



BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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