Physician-assisted suicide

[Chris P Bacon]

Thanks cd, found them for around $12 from Amazon (3 bracelets)
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How handy too, it looks as if they’re reusable! 3/$12, no wonder Jeff Bezos is the richest man on Earth!

 

[Dancing_Queen]

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There is some concern here that DNR's don't work, and it's easy to see

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There is some concern here that DNR's don't work, and it's easy to see why.

What’s the point of a getting DNR order (Do Not Resuscitate) if I have a heart attack in a supermarket? They’ll call the paramedics and bring me back to life.

It doesn't really worry me but some older Aussies have complained about it on our senior forums.

My first late husband was in a rehab facility. He had just finished signing his DNR papers when the paramedics had to be called. They had their equipment out. I stopped them. As it turned out, my husband didn't need it.

 

[Dancing_Queen]

mellow..,if it worries you that you might be zapped back to life you can get a bracelet or necklace with dnr on it

But they aren't legal -- at least in Florida. It has to be a specific form on yellow paper and signed by both a doctor and the patient. It's, I think, 8.5x14 inches with a secondary, smaller one that's wallet sized.

 

[MarciKS]

Something already went wrong, that's why some folks are consider suicide .

I'm in favor of it.

I'm not saying I'm against it. For myself it's a religious issue that I'm not sure of.

Good to see you.

 

[Butterfly]

The problem with physician assisted suicide is determining when. If my DMV photo is not all that flattering, can I call my doc, and end it all? How do you know when enough is enough? Should you determine that on the judgement of a person, who wants to kill himself?

I think the individual person should have the right to say enough is enough. Enough for one person may be far different than enough for another person.

Now of course I am talking about people who are ill, not about some teenager who has decided his/her life is over because they don't have a date for the prom. I don't think seriously ill persons so much want to kill themselves as they want the suffering to be over, knowing that death or an unacceptable quality of life is the inevitable outcome.