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A comment on a NYT Editorial 'Offering a Choice to the Terminally Ill'
Tim Tappan, NY 5 days ago
I'll be blunt. I have stage 4 cancer. I've been told there is no cure - just control follow by palliative care. My biggest concern about assisted suicide is that it might void my life insurance policy. Sounds ridiculous, I know, but I worry about leaving what I can for my wife after I'm gone. I never hear about this aspect of assisted suicide. I assume I will have to "tough it out" until the end. Guessing my last days will be on a morphine drip. That seems inhumanly cruel. And frightening.
These are some of the things a guy with terminal cancer thinks about in the middle of the night.
I'll be blunt. I have stage 4 cancer. I've been told there is no cure - just control follow by palliative care. My biggest concern about assisted suicide is that it might void my life insurance policy. Sounds ridiculous, I know, but I worry about leaving what I can for my wife after I'm gone. I never hear about this aspect of assisted suicide. I assume I will have to "tough it out" until the end. Guessing my last days will be on a morphine drip. That seems inhumanly cruel. And frightening.
These are some of the things a guy with terminal cancer thinks about in the middle of the night.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/opinion/sunday/offering-a-choice-to-the-terminally-ill.html?hpw&rref=opinion&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
It broke my heart to read the choices confronting poor Tim. I think we treat our pets more humanely that we do our fellow humans.
Its about time to write Euthanasia in to LAW.
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