[redgolum]

My Grandma (step actually, my Grandpa was a widower) died of Alzheimer's. She went to a nursing home when Grandpa could no longer take care of her. Grandpa drove to town every day for years to spend the day with her, until he could no longer take care of himself and had to go into the nursing home himself.

Grandpa was not a talkative man, and did not show emotion. But he showed me by standing by the only Grandma I ever knew what love was when so many would have just left her to die. When I hear so many talk of "death with dignity" and killing of those who can not contribute to society, it angers me beyond what I can say.

Life is sacred. If you make the measure of what a life is worth how "productive" someone is, then we as a society will soon face a horror that will make the genocides of the 20th century look like a schoolyard scuffle.

[Gondring]

Life is sacred. If you make the measure of what a life is worth how "productive" someone is, then we as a society will soon face a horror that will make the genocides of the 20th century look like a schoolyard scuffle.

According to the Founding Fathers, Rights were also sacred. If you make society the judge of what a Right is worth to an individual, what an individual should do or not do with his life, then you might as well start posting with the other Right-Grabbers on DU.

I'm curious what other compulsory behaviors you favor, besides living in agony. Perhaps you'd like to force people to join a church?

Love is also respecting a person's wishes, IMHO, and not reversing their life-end preferences based on one's own preferences just because they have become delusional and unable to stop you. In fact, I think such behavior is selfish and immoral.