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    LL> Brittany Maynard was terminally ill, given only a few   
    LL> short months to live, and was in much pain and suffering.   
    LL> She ended her life in Oregon, one of five states in the   
    LL> US that allows doctors to help assist the terminally   
    LL> ill of sound mind to do so.   
      
    LL> Our society chooses to condem people who decide to end   
    LL> their own lives, and forbids doctors and other health care   
    LL> workers to help them do it.  Even though five states have   
      
    ...   
      
    LL> When it becomes an impossibility, or undue hardship, to   
    LL> maintain a quality of life worth living, then an individual   
    LL> should have an absolute right to end his/her own life.   
      
      
    This argument has been going on a very long time. Long ago I   
    read a report on it, and it said there is no such thing as pain   
    that can't be controlled. They gave England as an example, where   
    the question didn't even come up.   
      
    You see, in England they can give heroin to patients in extreme   
    pain. That is a big difference.   
      
    I don't know if it's true that there is no such thing as pain   
    that can't be alleviated, but I do know there is pain that can   
    be alleviated, but the drugs that do it are either illegal, or   
    so controlled you can't give them enough.   
      
    Then there's the fear of making terminal patients drug addicts.   
    The other fear is, the drugs will shorten the patient's life.   
    Chose, 6 weeks of extreme pain, or 4 weeks free from pain. Not   
    hard by my thinking.   
      
    ...   
      
    LL> What about a baby born without a brain?  Would it be okay   
    LL> for a doctor or a nurse to off the baby?  I mean, the baby   
      
    An anacelephic baby doesn't live long and doesn't suffer.   
      
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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