Re: being pushed to choose death
It is actually illegal to allow a dog to undergo suffering until it dies. The RSPCA would have you convicted. Yet we won't help those that want to end their suffering. Why should it be cancer that takes them? All too often at the end of their lives, these sufferers no longer have a voice in society. I have heard many tales of nurses being told by patients that they want to die. I heard my grandfather say it too. No amount of palliative care is enough when the spirit longs to go.
Two people have a choice
One says, let us both have our individual choices
The other says, no, I wish to have my will over yours.
That is the fact over voluntary euthanasia
How much peace people would know if they knew they could end their suffering if it all became too much. How they then could hang out for the last moment rather than suffer the fear and torment of knowing that their end will be terrible.
Why is there the presumption that suffering old people always want to live? I know that I would be so glad that someone put me out of my misery, particularly if I did not know it was coming! Oh to live in Holland.
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