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Assisted Suicide - Yay or Nay?
- Thread starter Nymphs
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Yay!
Just not quite yet.
Just not quite yet.
Nymphs
Well-Known Member
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
I think anyone who wants to die should have the easiest, most pain-free methods made available to them to help them along. I don't limit this to terminally or chronically ill people.
I'm not ready to go. The rules of the Shovel Club are that members mustNot quite yet?
wait til a fellow is unable to care for himself before dispatching him.
Btw, if anyone is interested, I have a coupon good for one free visit from
Jack Kevorkian. Yeah, he's dead, but some other organizations will honor it.
Nymphs
Well-Known Member
Gotcha. I'm all for it as well, but I'm waiting until I'm old and have lost many of my bodily functions.
My father died of cancer - lymphoma that spread to his brain. After he lost consciousness for the last time, and after the doctors confirmed that he would never wake up again, his doctor presented my mother, my sister, and I with a choice: we could leave him on his IV and he would live a few more weeks until he finally died of cancer, or we could remove the IV and he would die in a few days of dehydration.
I wish we had been given a third option: to give him something to allow him to die quickly and peacefully without any more suffering.
I wish we had been given a third option: to give him something to allow him to die quickly and peacefully without any more suffering.
psychoslice
Veteran Member
My mum died of throat cancer, we had to watch her chock to death, the first time she stopped breathing I then closed her eyes, she then started to breath again and the whole thing happened all over again, after the third time I closed her eyes and that was the end thank God. I don't think anyone really understands it until they have watched a loved one die in front of them in such a way as I watched my mum and you with your dad.
Yay. I think people should have the right to choose the manner and time of their death.
Aye, it's the ultimate right for those of us who believe in body autonomy.
BSM1
What? Me worry?
Absolutely yay. Although crazy daughter-in-law already has a nice 'home' picked out for me (many years down the road) I don't plan on putting my family or myself through the torture and indignity of a nursing home. I only pray that when and if the time comes I'll have enough strength to pull the trigger, and enough steadiness not to accidentally hit the dog.
I'm thinking of training my cats to smother me.
Nymphs
Well-Known Member
The husband and I already plan to go out with some sort of a bang.
You're giving your cats guns?
That's a lotta power to give to Satan's familiars.
Nymphs
Well-Known Member
Our kitty is already plotting our demise.
Our cats are dumb, & require training.
What about depressed people deciding this at their lowest point? We need limitations.
Nymphs
Well-Known Member
Assisted suicide laws have that...you need to see doctors, psychiatrists, etc.