...for sharing this. You shared a perspective, experience, and reasoning that I had not considered before. I support the Oregon Death with Dignity Act and am generally in support of such measures for folks who are terminally ill (not for disability related reasons), but care deeply about the reasoning behind these decisions that we make as a society and want to minimize suicide for so many reasons. So, I think I might be part of your target audience if your goal is to change minds on this issue.
One question I still have after reading this is around the severe physical pain that folks are suffering at the end of life. You addressed the mental suffering, but I am wondering how you respond to folks who are in their last days of life and want to shorten that suffering (and for whom pain management is not effective)? I suppose I am thinking of the one person I know who used this act, so maybe that is too specific, but it seemed reasonable to me at the time.
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Date: 2010-06-25 04:12 am (UTC)One question I still have after reading this is around the severe physical pain that folks are suffering at the end of life. You addressed the mental suffering, but I am wondering how you respond to folks who are in their last days of life and want to shorten that suffering (and for whom pain management is not effective)? I suppose I am thinking of the one person I know who used this act, so maybe that is too specific, but it seemed reasonable to me at the time.