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velvetears -> RE: Just die already! (9/19/2008 11:46:49 AM)
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ORIGINAL: hizgeorgiapeach
I feel that assisted death, as well as suicide, should be made legal. If a person truely doesn't want to stick around, they are Going to find a way to remove themselves permanently from the equation. What business do Any of the rest of us have in interfering with that decision making process?
Sometimes - death is a considerably greater act of Mercy than extending a life - both to the person suffering, and to those around them. Those who are no longer "there" mentally - you can't Grieve, because they aren't Dead. But Grieving is exactly what you often feel you Should do, because what made them "them" is already dead and gone. I've watched my dad for the past 2 years, knowing that it wasn't "time" yet to grieve, because his body still tenuously clings to the semblance of life - yet also knowing that what made him Dad died 2 years ago when his stroke happened. He is nearly bancrupt, and I'm well on the way there, just paying for his necessary care.
Those who've suffered extended periods of physical agony, praying to die, hoping to die, wishing they could just get it over with and die - hell, sometimes Begging to die just so it's finally Over - it's well beyond inhumane, cruel, or sadistic to Force them not to actively seek death as a means of Release. It is it's own unique - and unfortunately Morally Sanctioned - form of torture, both physical and mental.
No, I don't think Lady Warnock is off track. I think the interfering, falsely moralistic, "life is sacred even if it's really only Existing" crap is off track.
No one wants to see their loved ones suffer. my dad is also a stroke victim who is now unable to walk, talk (very little), control his bodily functions, swallow (liquids have to be thickened and food has to be in very small pieces. He is very depressed and in the last few years i have seen him cry at the slightest occurance that would bring out any emotion in him. Never in my life had i ever seen my dad as an emotional man, so to see him always in tears breaks my heart. He is a shell of who he was and i pray everyday he finds release from his flesh and bone prison. No one should be forced to endure this kind of life.
i understand completely how you feel, i too feel like i am grieving, yet he is not passed on, yet he is not "here" anymore either. i don't see him as often as i should but i find it brings up very sad past memories of when i took care of my dying mother. With her, in the end, the doctor basically said he would up the dose of morphine and she would pass. i had no problem at all with this but is this assisted suicide under the table so to speak? i was taking care of her for the longest while and used to give her her morphine, i had thoughts that tear me up in guilt when i think of what i wanted and almost did. No one should ever be put in that position, the medical field needs to understand if they cannot create quality forget extending peoples lives. my dad had a defibrillator/pacemaker placed in his heart 4 years ago, had he not gotten this device he would have died years ago. How i wish he had not gotten this done, but hindsight is always 20/20 and how could we all have known he would suffer such debilitating strokes.
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