Is physician-assisted euthanasia a patients right?
Speaking from my viewpoint as a 66 year old in good health, but still very much aware that I am on the down side of this lifetime, I sincerely hope more states accept a person’s right to choose his time and method of death. My worst nightmare is being sick and weak and possibly suffering also from dementia and being hooked up to tubes feeding me and draining waste products from my body, and wires keeping my heart and lungs pumping my old and used up blood thru a pain racked deteriorating body. Add the trauma of periodically being taken to the operating room for one more assault on this non-functioning husk. Of course this operation is preceded by all sorts of tests and scans where I am struck and poked and strapped in and made to lie still for upwards of an hour adding to my already excruciating pain. This nightmare is no joke or exaggeration because it is going on daily in our hospitals and nursing homes.
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