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April 13, 2005
Wrong answer to right question?
Excuse me if I'm a little lot skeptical of CA's legislature to craft an assisted-suicide bill with the kind of safe-guards necessary to prevent it becoming a tool of euthanasia. That would include the cultural shift to subtly pressure terminally-ill people to "not be a burden" to their families rather than fighting the good fight.
Posted by Darleen at April 13, 2005 06:24 AM
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(Hate to comment late on stuff, but it was my husband's birthday yesterday)
I used to get the Human Life International newsletter, which was eerily prescient about exactly this. I remember a short story set in the future (which would be now) about activists who ran an underground railroad for comatose persons scheduled for termination.
They were also quite clear that one day soon, Grammy and Pop-pop would be expected to off themselves with the aid of Dr. Do-good so little Timmy could afford to go to college and/or the family would be spared the emotional burden of their increasingly failing health. And that there would be plenty of examples of friends and neighbors who'd "done the right thing" for their families to beat them with.
I think we all need a copy of McGhehee's Living Will...
Posted by: Sal at April 14, 2005 06:00 PM