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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Yogizuna who wrote (99384)3/24/2005 7:59:07 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
In Oregon only the patient can initiate the assisted suicide, has to be within six months of death with a terminal illness, must be well enough to take the medication unassisted, etc. There are a whole lot of laws governing how this is all done, so no one but the patient has any say whatsoever. So you would have been fully alive right now if you lived in Oregon.

Interestingly, the number of assisted suicides in Oregon is smaller than anticipated, based on the numbers of terminally ill people there. Apparently knowing that you still have some other option, some control in the process, causes people to be able to deal with impending death better, and not so many of them request it as expected.

Coug is correct. Those videos playing endlessly were little snippets taken from lots of film. According to Schiavo's guardian, her eyes dart around the room a lot. If you carefully edit the video it could look like she was responding, without that being so. She has no working brain, no self awareness.
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