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To: wagglebee
In the video Ewert says, "I am tired of the disease but I am not tired of living. I still enjoy life enough that I would like to continue but the thing is that I really cannot."

How sad that he felt that this was his best option and thought death would be a release.

I'm guessing that about now he's wishing he had waited a few more years.

9 posted on 12/09/2008 3:45:23 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
From the NY Daily News story:
A father of two grown children who supported his choice, Ewert voices no regrets about ending his life in the film and says suicide is the only alternative to "utter hell."

"Once I become completely paralyzed, then I am nothing more than a living tomb that takes in nutrients through a tube in the stomach," he says. "It's painful."
Who here is sadistic enough to insist that this man...

"I wonder if he or his family consulted with hospice professionals who could have assured him that he wouldn't have to suffer terribly unable to cry out."

Maybe word is getting out that such assurances are false.

20 posted on 12/09/2008 6:30:07 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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