If it wouldn’t result in mission creep, I’d be all for it. The more liberals offing themselves for any reason, the better for America and the world.
But it would result in mission creep. It already is thanks to Romneycare...sorry. Obamacare.
Wait ... I thought they told us when they murdered Terry Shivo that starvation and thirsting to death was euphoric and humane . I’m confused .
“...but the whole thing seems to be a push for assisted suicide.”
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I didn’t see (in the article) HIM advocating for assisted suicide. He chose how his life was to end and I respect him for that...just as I respect the folks caught in the Twin Towers who chose to end their life by jumping to their deaths instead of perishing in fire.
“Without the option of assisted suicide, she said, “the only choice in California is to stop eating and drinking. It’s not a fun thing to watch or experience. It’s very difficult.”
Dont understand. Without the option of assisted suicide, why is the ONLY option is to stop eating and drinking? Certainly there are many other methods of suicide.
He sounds like a lovely man. This was a fine tribute. It’s always great to read about people with grace and dignity.
This isn’t about compassion for those in terminal agony any more that then, 50 yrs ago, the movement to carve out a little space on airplanes was just about safe space for nonsmokers.
Not a pretty way to die. One of the guys I played recreation basketball with for 20+ years, a small town police chief, got ALS year before last. He was playing ball with us regularly, and we’d stop off for some rehydration and BS about sports, politics, work. Then within a few months was barely mobile. Then the wheelchair and hardly being able to speak or lift a hand. He was dead in a year, give or take, at 55.