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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Yogizuna who wrote (31604)4/2/2005 9:35:28 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
Let me add another situation to that: A family member has cancer. Metastasized (spreading) cancer. They will die. Attempting to remove all the cancer surgically will kill them; you just can't cut up a person that much. Numerous types of chemotherapy have been tried and failed. This is an aggressive cancer. You have medical power of attorney for that person. They are so loaded up with painkillers - dope -that they can no longer be expected to make rational decisions. The painkiller, in spite of the amount given, which is the max, is STILL not stopping the pain. The patient lives every day with severe pain in spite of the painkiller.

What do you do?

With current laws, just sit there and watch them die in pain. More analgesic will kill them; the docs won't give it because they can be charged with murder.

What's wrong with this picture?

The situation I'm presenting happened 30 years ago. I thought maybe better drugs would be available by now and it would be different. I've been told by someone that as of 5 years ago it hadn't changed a bit.

Enjoy you're life while you've got it. And may this sort of death happen only to those who prevent such situations from being humanely terminated.
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