How do we feel about legal assisted suicide

[Underock1]

I feel for you, Truespock, and even more for Josiah, who is still suffering through this horror with his wife. I only had two months of it. My wife was pretty good until the last couple of weeks. I don't know that its all about the buck though. We live in NJ. We have always found everyone in the medical profession to be very caring and compassionate. The doctors not as much as the nurses, aides, and technicians. What I do think, is that the doctors take advantage of having a body available to try things out on. They will run every test that they can and try every procedure you allow them to. I really think its more about the learning experience for them than the buck. They seem to forget that they are dealing with the lives of an entire family, see the patient as a kind of lab rat.

 

[Butterfly]

The things my poor niece went through were absolutely hellish -- and the physicians had known pretty much since the cancer was discovered that it was inevitably terminal.. They kept offering her one more thing -- I know she could have said "no more," but she wanted to live. I feel they offered her false hope and greatly prolonged her suffering. There should be a balance between quantity and quality of life, and she had absolutely NO quality of life the last weeks of her life.