Again, you miss the point....if my dog asked me to end his life and I saw he was suffering, I would...and I would accept any and all consequences for my action. If a person asked me...I would have to make a PERSONAL decision, how could I (or even you) know what I (or you) would do? I am opposed to the concept and would never take my own life, nor would I be so demanding of another to ask them to do so, but if I was placed in that situation by someone else...well, then the decision would be mine alone to make....therein lies my point, it would be MY responsibility not the government's...and, if I did do what was requested of me, I would do so against my beliefs and with the expectation that I would pay the consequences! Life is about decisions and the consequences of making them...and Willie Parker broke his leg immediately after I picked him up and placed him in my lineup so I paid the price of losing 20 + points that week...exactly what I deserved!

Again, you are simplifying a complex issue....DR K has free will like the rest of us...he made the decision to end someone's life and he alone is responsible for the consequences. Just because someone asks you to do something changes nothing about free will...you, and you alone, make the decision! I worked 35 years with mentally ill folks and folks in all kinds of pain...seen far more suffering than anyone should have to...to suggest that I don't care about folk's pain is just wrong! When I worked in Piney Mt Nursing Home as Director of Soc Services, the first battle I fought was that the home REQUIRED every new admission to have a living will and that doctors...IN MY PRESENCE would often call family members and literally demand that they, as power of attorney, change wills that requested "heroic mesures" to DNR orders...if that's not deciding for someone, often against their expressed desires, I don't know what is??? And that is without government sanctioned euthanasia! Forgive me if I see this as somewhat forbodding!

The only government that allows this (Oregon's) feels exactly the way you do. They do not mandate that physicians participate in the Death With Dignity Act; a patient must find a doctor who does and they have no recourse to force a doctor to go along with it.

So, the government is not making a decision for anyone, or imposing any decision on anyone -- they are simply saying that you (patient & doctor individually) have the right to make your own decisions.

What's the harm in that? Nobody has to do anything they don't want to. So, if that's not enough, please reassure me that those who oppose physician-assisted suicide do so from a genuine place that is not about controlling other people.

Dr. K provided the means, but with the exception of a couple of cases, was not the one who actually DID it.

"The individuals themselves allegedly took the final action which resulted in their own deaths. Kevorkian allegedly assisted only by attaching the individual to a device that he had made. The individual then pushed a button which released the drugs or chemicals that would end his or her own life."

working in the psych field , you should know better then anyone that people can have a nervous breakdown or just lose it. some people can seem at one point in thier life to have it together and say those same words and later something may change. i know that i say i wouldnt either .but i would be foolish to realisticly think someday something could go seriously wrong ,but what do our futures hold for us or for others. why do we always question and say -i never thought they would do that-or they seemed happy. the brain is one of the last undiscovered frontiers in med, and doesnt get the funding it deserves, we know very little about it . my point being never say never. you just don't know........i'm sure some of the young men before they left for iraq didn't plan on co,ming home and commiting suicide either. and its a alarming amount-as one example

couldn't agree more

Too kind Hossy....that means a lot to me.

I'll grant you that...never say never....but my convictions require me to say that...I feel very strongly and simply HAVE to believe I'd never sink so low mentally and spiritually to do myself in....but your point is well made.

Agree one hundred percent.....

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