What bybee said, thanks bybee.
If legalized assisted suicide becomes a reality, then euthanasia will become a reality where the dying are helped out just a little quicker.
I think that somewhere along the line of days, weeks, months and years, somebody has given a suffering someone an extra measure of pain killer that wonder hasten on the dying process.
Sometimes I think before I post, or my mind cannot keep up with my fingers, and recognizing that my electronic communication skills are less than stellar.
My intent was to post . . . The living prolong the dying which is the inevitable end. There are cases where the living cannot let go of the dying. I understand holding out for that treatment, or that sure cure, maybe it is hope against hope; yet there comes a point when comfort care/hospice is the best care.
While I do not agree with assisted suicide, I think there is a point when a family member or friend should realize that for the afflicted comfort care is now the best care to give, that I do not see it as giving up, but as providing merciful, kind and loving care. Let life ebb away until it is over. There are medications that will ease pain and discomfort, and make it less difficult for the dying process. The healthcare facility where I am a Chaplain, there are several residents that on comfort care and are being administered a morphine drip.
I really did try to keep my fingers from failing into the cracks of the keyboard and my mind focused on the topic. I hope all this verbiage I have explained that I believe in mercy and comfort for the terminal, and that I do agree with assisted suicide or euthanasia.
If legalized assisted suicide becomes a reality, then euthanasia will become a reality where the dying are helped out just a little quicker.
I think that somewhere along the line of days, weeks, months and years, somebody has given a suffering someone an extra measure of pain killer that wonder hasten on the dying process.
Sometimes I think before I post, or my mind cannot keep up with my fingers, and recognizing that my electronic communication skills are less than stellar.
My intent was to post . . . The living prolong the dying which is the inevitable end. There are cases where the living cannot let go of the dying. I understand holding out for that treatment, or that sure cure, maybe it is hope against hope; yet there comes a point when comfort care/hospice is the best care.
While I do not agree with assisted suicide, I think there is a point when a family member or friend should realize that for the afflicted comfort care is now the best care to give, that I do not see it as giving up, but as providing merciful, kind and loving care. Let life ebb away until it is over. There are medications that will ease pain and discomfort, and make it less difficult for the dying process. The healthcare facility where I am a Chaplain, there are several residents that on comfort care and are being administered a morphine drip.
I really did try to keep my fingers from failing into the cracks of the keyboard and my mind focused on the topic. I hope all this verbiage I have explained that I believe in mercy and comfort for the terminal, and that I do agree with assisted suicide or euthanasia.
