re: #103 wahabicorridor

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What’s the argument here exactly? Assisted suicide for terminally ill patients is something for us to worry about? I live in Oregon and am glad to know that if I or my partner should ever face something like this, the law is on our side to chose how and when we go. Choosing between a drawn out painfully slow death, or a peaceful arrangement shouldn’t be anyone’s else’s business.

‘He took five times the amount of barbiturates that should kill somebody and he still didn’t die,’ his older brother Steve told the Daily Mail this week.

‘If anything, he should have been brain-dead. But he told us that, while unconscious, he had found himself before God and been told: “Not this way, David.” God chose David as his spokesman, absolutely.’

He adds: ‘It definitely made it very clear to me that we are not supposed to determine our own deaths.’

So let me get this straight, I’m supposed to forget everything that doctors and lawyers have to say about this issue because someone that was heavily dosed with barbiturates slipped into a coma and came out the other end claiming he talked to god?

Seriously?

I know lots of people that claimed they talked to god while they were on drugs, I don’t take their claims seriously either. As for the expense of medicine to “prolong life”, need I remind you that insurance companies can be just as heartless, and can refuse to pay for such drugs?

over 50% of Americans want health care reform. Probably because our current system has alarming flaws which concern us. The debate should not be a binary “Yes or No”, it should be a well thought out “how”. Fear mongering, flash-mobs, chanting, and bullying will not help anyone.