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scaeagles · 10-06-2005, 02:43 PM

I have read about this, and have tried to come to some sort of coherent or relevant expression, but find I am struggling to do so.

I find it sad that legal wranglings over the CSA should come into play over this. What if the law in Oregon was legalized and consensual beheading? Would that be acceptable? I doubt such a law would be passed, as it isn't clean enough. Has to be clean.

Surely if Terri Schiavo can be put to death by dehydration and starvation (I had no problem with her life being ended only the way in which it was done), surely there is a way in which people can legally end their lives in a more humane fashion. However, I digress - this really isn't about Schiavo.

I struggle with this issue like no other. My mom died of lupus in Sept. 1984 when I was 15. She had been suffering for 13 years after the first signs of the disease surfaced - specifically a brain tumor. I came close to killing her myself at her request one summer day in 1984, but was removed from the situation by a knock at the door by a lady from our church that had come to offer assistance that day. My mother never made the request of me again.

While lawyers present arguments and judges rule from on high, the very real situation faced daily by Americans is not dealt with. My family and I were ripped apart by this. While I email my dad a couple times a year, I literally have not spoken to him in.....10 years? The roots of that go back to the complexities of my mom's situation, and should she have simply been permitted to die - without medication she would have a couple years into it, and without brain surgery she would have died before I had any memories of her - it would not be so. Surely in a world where medical advances can assist so many to lead quality lives when they would be dead otherwise it should be possible for those who are terminal and in pain to end them.

So.....I will read about the CSA and the constitutionality and morality thereof, and perhaps see an attempt by Oregon to rewrite their law to circumvent it, and I will sit and sadly shake my head because the legality of this case has nothing to do with the issue itself, and people go on terminally ill and in pain while their families go through the grieving process in front of them on a daily basis.

10-06-2005, 02:43 PM	#2
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	I have read about this, and have tried to come to some sort of coherent or relevant expression, but find I am struggling to do so. I find it sad that legal wranglings over the CSA should come into play over this. What if the law in Oregon was legalized and consensual beheading? Would that be acceptable? I doubt such a law would be passed, as it isn't clean enough. Has to be clean. Surely if Terri Schiavo can be put to death by dehydration and starvation (I had no problem with her life being ended only the way in which it was done), surely there is a way in which people can legally end their lives in a more humane fashion. However, I digress - this really isn't about Schiavo. I struggle with this issue like no other. My mom died of lupus in Sept. 1984 when I was 15. She had been suffering for 13 years after the first signs of the disease surfaced - specifically a brain tumor. I came close to killing her myself at her request one summer day in 1984, but was removed from the situation by a knock at the door by a lady from our church that had come to offer assistance that day. My mother never made the request of me again. While lawyers present arguments and judges rule from on high, the very real situation faced daily by Americans is not dealt with. My family and I were ripped apart by this. While I email my dad a couple times a year, I literally have not spoken to him in.....10 years? The roots of that go back to the complexities of my mom's situation, and should she have simply been permitted to die - without medication she would have a couple years into it, and without brain surgery she would have died before I had any memories of her - it would not be so. Surely in a world where medical advances can assist so many to lead quality lives when they would be dead otherwise it should be possible for those who are terminal and in pain to end them. So.....I will read about the CSA and the constitutionality and morality thereof, and perhaps see an attempt by Oregon to rewrite their law to circumvent it, and I will sit and sadly shake my head because the legality of this case has nothing to do with the issue itself, and people go on terminally ill and in pain while their families go through the grieving process in front of them on a daily basis.
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