http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Berkeley-Doctor-to-Start-End-of-Life-Practice-as-State-Law-Takes-Effect-382164671.html
Read that article there. A doctor in California is starting a End-of-Life Practice and I think its a good thing. I like to see any advancement towards the Right to die Movement.
I think people should have the right to die if they choose too…. and should be able to get assistance with that if they need so.
Thats just my take on it.
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I hope the public doesn’t protest and treat him like some grotesque monster.
Years ago here in Michigan we had Dr. Kevorkian, and people treated him disgracefully because they just couldn’t wrap their heads around the concept.
Yeah I agree with you. I think people who protest such things should get a life and mind their own business.
I think this kind of thing is a real life service that some terminally ill people need.
I hope so too, Cordless.
The one thing I don’t like is that it applies only to terminally ill patients. It still is suicide whether people acknowledge it or not but the same medication won’t be offered to a non terminally ill patient. Pain isn’t always physical but I suppose mental pain can be ‘fixed’ with pills and isn’t applicable for the right to die movement. I’m happy for those terminally ill patients that have a way out.
yeah, it is really good for the terminally ill…. Really if you look at statistics a decent chunk of them don’t actually use their pills either. But even if they don’t end up actually needing to use them I assume it still is comforting for them to have them, just in case things get really bad. I sort of understand why it’s only for the terminally ill though, although in many other ways it could be kind of good for it not to be…. as there wouldn’t be as many failed attempts, which is both good and bad in ways.
Yeah you are right. for now the service he is providing is just for terminally ill people. But its a start. If we can get that passed and up and running then that is a step in the right direction for the right to die movement.
Are terminally ill patients not using the pills because they prefer to die of natural causes? Don’t see the point in having the pills if you prefer to suffer. I think the pills will be good because no more failed attempts which can leave a person worse off dramatically increasing a repeat behavior. Suicide used to be honorable long ago especially with Japanese culture and surely many more. Now, the stigma attached to suicide is probably why the pills aren’t given out liberally. From the current society standpoint, past humans such as samurais who died from suicide were mentally ill.
Ummmm yeah a lot that don’t use the pills just don’t get to a point where they want to use them…. Like according to a lot of the interviews I’ve seen a lot don’t plan on using them as soon as they get them but want them for if they get to a point where they no longer can handle their suffering, which I guess not all do. Samurai were sort of special, like if I recall right they were more or less required to commit suicide in certain incidents. I still personally wouldn’t like pills to be given out liberally, (which I know does contradict a lot of things I’ve shared in the past in so many ways) mostly because I don’t like the idea of people killing themselves…. But I would also like the stigma removed from suicide too, so it would just become a somewhat normal and comfortable topic of conversation…. -_-