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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (6268)	2/20/2001 2:56:18 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I find it strange that people wouldn't offer the compassion they'd offer a dying animal. I've always been amazed by that. Although some people can be amazingly cruel to some animals, our societal ethical standard requires that we not let a companion animal suffer. Would that we were so kind to humans. I have a friend who once had a cat go into seizures in the laundry room. She didn't know what to do so she closed the door and went to the other side of the house to try not to hear the animal's cries and banging around. It eventually died. Years later she cried from guilt as she told me the story. She never got over it. Karen

To: cosmicforce who wrote (6268)	2/20/2001 4:34:04 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

<<Doctors won't give her our best pain killer, heroine, because they are worried about the DEA>> I believe it goes a bit deeper than "DEA fears" for most good doctors. Seems to be a bit more the whole "do no harm" idea pressed into them from day one. Addiction is afterall a great "harm" in a person that is expected to have any chance to recover. My mother's Dr.(prior to her passing from cancer & & & .....) said they simply are not well educated in the science of pain management & far to little research has been done into pain. He said while much repair of injury is (his words) "right out of star wars", the fight against disease is stuck in current time, and the war against pain is near stuck in the early prior century.