Originally Posted By: blue water pro
Until we change our health care system people should be afraid of assisted suicide. If too old or too sick is a financial concern, financial ruin so that a pill make sense - then that is cruel, for all involved. How can that not be at least part of it when our health care is what it is?


I recommend you watch or live with a family member or friend who has Stage 4 terminal cancer.

Watching someone wither away and die due to a terminal illness is NOT health care. It's pure pain and agony for all parties involved, INCLUDING their doctors.

What is cruel is not letting them end their life the way they see fit. If they want to ride it out, so be it. If they want to end it now via assisted suicide, so be it.

But to deny a terminal patient that ability is downright barbaric, especially in a first world country in the year 2008.
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