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Originally Posted by Joeaksa
My Father approached me in the twilight of his life. He had bone cancer and was confined to his bed the last 6 months, on a morphine drip. He asked if I could help him end his life with dignity if it got to that point.
How do you say no to a request like this? I could not and as a medivac pilot and EMT/Paramedic had access to what was needed. Thank God in the end it was not needed but this was one of the toughest things that I have had to deal with in my life.
There are a few things in this country that I do not agree with and this is one of them. If there is simply no way out and no cure, then a person should have other options available than what we have at this time.
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I lost my mother 3 months ago. Alzheimer disease. At the end she was no more able to eat-drink-live. We objected that the doctors give her serum and tube feeding to continue this kind of life. They'd put her in semi-coma...with morphine. We wanted the doctors give her something to stop that. They never wanted....she died after 11 days from deshydratation. So for me...euthanasia is not a privilege...it's a right.