Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide
I hear that England once considered suicide as murder and punished would-be suicides by hanging. Hmmmmm. If you've watched someone you care for die from cancer or any other horrible disease, you will...
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I think it's ridiculous the way doctors, scientists and politicians decide about life issues. A terminally ill person has to suffer until 'nature takes it's course'. Any loved ones wait anxiously...
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I went with "Other".In a book called "The Noonday Demon" about depression, by Andrew Solomon, while the author does not in any way advocate suicide as a solution, he argues that each of us at all...
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I often think you wouldn't let a dog or cat linger on in pain - why someone you love ? Also, my hubby is my life - think I'm going to jump on his coffin if he goes first.. and be cremated at the same...
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Has anyone's opinion changed since the Teri Shavio autopsy results that showed she was in a vegative state and also blind?
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Her condition was well known by her doctors (she'd been examined by something like 18 separate doctors, all had concluded that she would not recover and was unaware of her condition). All of the...
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Quote:I hear that England once considered suicide as murder and punished would-be suicides by hanging. HmmmmmYea, we're 'quaint' like that
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This all reminds me of a SouthPark episode, where one of the boys asks several authority figures about assisted suicide:Chef - "I wouldn't touch that question with a 10 foot poll"Counselor - "I...
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The first time I heard that word "Euthanasia" when I was a little kid, I thought they were talking about young people in China. I also wondered what the letters S.O.B. meant. I just knew they were...
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Well, Dean, it's hard to crack a really good joke on an euthanasia thread, but I think you pulled it off.Personally, I always wondered what a 'bullfish' was.Jody de La Rochefoucauld - There is nothing...
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Quote:I hear that England once considered suicide as murder and punished would-be suicides by hanging. HmmmmmYes it was considered "self-murder" it meant that a person could not be buried in...
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And yet, when I took an overdose (took 50 tablets, and woke up the next day, right as rain) they just asked me if I would do it again, and sent me home!I suppose, looking back, they didn't think...
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People about to die don't usually don't care to eat. Hospice recognizes this as much a part of the process of death as kidney shut down.
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