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To: one_less who wrote (488)	9/9/2006 2:55:50 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

Your grey area is exactly what concerns me. If you're suffering and circling the drain but still a long time away from a natural death, you have to choose between taking your life early before you are too disabled to pull it off or finding yourself stuck, lingering miserably, and unable to do the deed yourself. That's why I support allowing someone to help you without penalty. IMO it's cruel to make someone either linger that way or ask someone to risk his liberty by helping you.

To: one_less who wrote (488)	9/10/2006 8:29:02 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

Not to tell tales out of school, but I do know someone who used to work in a hospice, and that person was willing to "push the envelope" when it came to the line between killing pain and killing the patient. This person explained that the patient would make their wishes known. Nevertheless, I would rather that the action was the patient's action. There can't be very many situations where a patient is incapable of self-administering enough morphine via a morphine pump to suppress breathing if that is what the patient wants. All it takes is one finger, toe, or a turn of the head if the device were set up to allow it.