Death with Dignity!
euthanasia.
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After hearing for the umpteenth time about a friends mother or father suffering long protracted incurable illness, The thought came to me it's about time the United States got off its high religious horse and started doing something about this.
To allow a person with no hope of a cure, living in excruciating pain for months on end to continue to live is a gross crime.
Powerful pain killers lose their potency and no longer can do what they are supposed to do.
Some kind of panel needs to be set up, comprised of a medical doctor, a psychiatrist, someone from the legal profession and one or two lay people with common sense.
The doctor can certify that indeed the patient in incurable and in great pain with no hope of a cure.
The psychiatrist can testify that the person is in their right mind and knows what is happening {lucid} and totally capable of making their own decision to suicide.
The lawyer is there to make sure all legal forms are followed.
The two lay people are there to balance out things and to have a say.
I for one do not want to see anymore of my loved ones die an agonizing slow death, while I stand by unable to do anything.
If I do take steps with the laws in place now I will be prosecuted for manslaughter at the very least.
Wake-up American people it's time we take some of our own lives back and be allowed to die with dignity.
To allow a person with no hope of a cure, living in excruciating pain for months on end to continue to live is a gross crime.
Powerful pain killers lose their potency and no longer can do what they are supposed to do.
Some kind of panel needs to be set up, comprised of a medical doctor, a psychiatrist, someone from the legal profession and one or two lay people with common sense.
The doctor can certify that indeed the patient in incurable and in great pain with no hope of a cure.
The psychiatrist can testify that the person is in their right mind and knows what is happening {lucid} and totally capable of making their own decision to suicide.
The lawyer is there to make sure all legal forms are followed.
The two lay people are there to balance out things and to have a say.
I for one do not want to see anymore of my loved ones die an agonizing slow death, while I stand by unable to do anything.
If I do take steps with the laws in place now I will be prosecuted for manslaughter at the very least.
Wake-up American people it's time we take some of our own lives back and be allowed to die with dignity.
