my2cent's Blog

that is a personal decision that should be up to the individual. if someone is positively terminal and in unbearable pain, etc. etc., they should have the right to die on their own terms, and assisted by a doctor if necessary.

Funny how the two most natural actions we do on this earth (other than procreation): birth and death, seem to be the most controversial...and expensive (to the point of bankrupting ppl)

From my point of view, he should have been given a medal instead of being sent to prison. When my time comes, will someone please call him for me?

i feel the people who put him in jail in the first place should be put in jail. there is nothing wrong with a doctor assisting someone in commiting suicide when they are facing next to unbearable pain. i was angered when i first saw this on the news. i was wondering why the heck is was in jail. apparently our justice system is far from perfect.

I/we should all be able to make our own decision as to pur fates.

I think the last two lines of William Ernest Henley's poem Invictus, says it all;

I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

Amen. Cancer was no fun, but I decided to fight and to ignore as much of the pain and anxiety as I could. I didn't need Dr. K then, but as I sat with relatives who died of cancer, I wondered if the ends of their lives had to be so brutal. Each of us has to choose what our outlook on it is.
I think a lot more doctors "help" the process along than we know. I think I'd rather be helped out than go through Alzheimers. That is my biggest fear in growing old.

He should never have went to prison in the first place. If I'm in pain for a long string of time, I'm in a coma for years at a time, or hanging on by a thread for dear life I would not want to be a burden on my family mentally. My family shouldn't be dealing with the mental stress of dealing with me on a constant basis. Take me out of my misary!!! I would prefer to go to someone like Dr. K to do it professionally.

oops should have been "A man,..."