Completely agreed. That is why I don't want anyone making the
decision for anyone else, especially not doctors. I just want the
right to make it for myself. I think everyone has the right to make
that decision according to their own conscience.
I agree it's a slippery slope. Doctors also sterilized people when
they should not have done so.
On the other hand if I am vegetative I do not want to take resources
from others like Case. Medical care is finite and although I am not
ready to die, I do feel I've lived a full life and if completely
paralyzed so I could not even communicate, I would be ok with dying.
That's just me and I would NEVER want to impose that on anyone else
because everyone has their own belief about death which needs to be
respected. I also don't want religious people mandating I be kept
alive in that state though.
At 11:06 AM 9/11/2006, you wrote:
>Then there's the slippery slope of, "who determines if a person's quality of
>life is mediocre?" A doctor could look at Case, for example, and say his
>quality of life isn't good, and have him "euthanized." It has happened
>before, in the little Holocaust. Nazi Germany euthanized (murdered) more
>than 600,000 people just like us, in the T4 program. Please don't go down
>that slide.
>
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>This is just me but I think, but obviously cannot know, that I would
>rather be given a lethal injection or something like that rather than
>stay in a permanent vegetative state. I think euthanasia is a
>rational approach to quality of life issues. Unlike Meir, I am not a
>religious person so those factors do not affect my decisions.
>When my father was dying of multiple autonomic failure it was a long
>process and they took extraordinary means to keep him alive long
>after he was ready to die. Twice they saved him when he would have
>rather they let him go because his quality of life was so diminished.
>We had talked about this while he was sick but before he lost his
>ability to communicate by talking. You could see in his eyes though
>that he was ready to die and disappointed to wake up again.
>These are difficult questions but I want to be able to make my
>decision based on what I think. I do not however want to make the
>decision for anyone else who thinks differently about it. It is true
>that the brain recovers very slowly.
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