[Riverman94610]

So what was this woman’s alternative?To die a slow painful death,unable to eat or drink and be numbed out of any feeling from morphine doses?
As long as there is hope for life,you should try to hang on.I think this woman had exhusted her hope,however.I don’t think she did the “right”thing since only God can take a life.
But I am not going to smugly sit up here and judge this woman.And can you honestly look yourself in the mirror and say you would not make the same choice if that were you?.

[wagglebee]

And can you honestly look yourself in the mirror and say you would not make the same choice if that were you?

Yes.

[L98Fiero]

“But I am not going to smugly sit up here and judge this woman.”

Yeah, me either.

“And can you honestly look yourself in the mirror and say you would not make the same choice if that were you?”

Nope, not with any degree of certainty. I wouldn’t be taken alive by terrorists either. There are a few situations in which I would take my own life so I’m not going to judge this woman.

[Lijahsbubbe]

I don’t think she did the “right”thing since only God can take a life. But I am not going to smugly sit up here and judge this woman.

I agree.

[Coldwater Creek]

My husband and I made that choice when he was given a cancer life sentence. We did everything possible to keep him alive naturally until he went into a coma. No regrets.
We just turned it over to God, and He made all of the arrangements. Again no regrets.

[trumandogz]

Reading this story was heart wrenching. i would hope it would not be the choice I would make. However, I cannot judge her decision. for I have not been in her shoes.

God Bless her.

I pray that she is now free of pain and with her God.

[grey_whiskers]

But I am not going to smugly sit up here and judge this woman.

Why not? The whole tone of the article is smugly judging everyone else.

And can you honestly look yourself in the mirror and say you would not make the same choice if that were you?.

I would probably choose morphine to numb the pain.

Cheers!

[Mr. Silverback]

But I am not going to smugly sit up here and judge this woman.And can you honestly look yourself in the mirror and say you would not make the same choice if that were you?.

Yes. And there is no "smug" about it.

[ssaftler]

So what was this woman’s alternative?To die a slow painful death,unable to eat or drink and be numbed out of any feeling from morphine doses?

After spending the longest seven days of my life as 24-hour nurse to my dying father, I can't disagree with this woman's choice.

There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING, sadder and more depressing than to watch someone go from an independent person still regularly watching his great-grandsons playing baseball to a complete invalid (unable to walk, stand and make himself understood let alone control bodily functions) in a matter of a month. I feel like I, personally, aged about a year in that week, and the vision of seeing him like that will probably haunt me for the rest of my life.

Would he have opted for assisted suicide? I don't know, but I wouldn't have put it past him. I know I never would have disagreed with him and, in retrospect, may have even been happy to work with him on such a task.