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Lt, I know you have dogs. I'm sure you've had one or two that have come down with something that's terminal. What do you do with them? Do you let whatever it is take them in it's full due course, or do you put them down at some point?

If she wasn't hot it would never be news, and no, I don't.

That's completely different. If this womans family wants her dead, then they need to kill her.

quite a while ago, my best friend, closer than a brother, had cancer.
He was on this morphine drip to kill the pain, but not enough. He was basically so bad that he was pooping his insides as they were falling apart. I found out later his wife had found him on the floor looking for his pistol, which she removed. I have that pistol now. He had no hope, no future, and was in tremendous pain. All he wanted was someone to bump the drip, to help him end it.
I could not do it, legal considerations aside, because of religious beliefs, and consider myself the coward for not helping my friend in the time of need.
I would suggest anyone using terms like quitter, coward, and so on, has never been one on one with these situations, are they wouldn't be so loose with words.
In conversation with medical professionals in the retirement area i work, while illegal, if the truth be known m.d.'s have been helping in this area for years with the terminally ill.
You can make of it as you will, but it is probably an act of kindness.

I respect her privacy and right to a death of her choice as she looks down the barrel of a very cruel executioner.

Dying is a private matter in which the state should not be involved, when the patient is diagnosed terminal.

Excellent post, and I would have no problem being killed.

They essentially are putting her down, or allowing her to be put down.

It's not different at all. It's about the choice as to whether to allow a life that you care about to end through pain and suffering, or to end that life when the pain and suffering is avoidable but the soon-to-happen death is not. We put our pets down out of compassion, because we don't want them to suffer. Yet, we call our own "cowards" when they are facing the same fate as those pets and want the same compassionate end we offer/give the pets.

There is no difference in the compassion, but there is in OUR acceptance of it.

I have no problem with them killing her if that's what they want to do.

My mom died of cancer. It took about 6 months from diagnosis to death. None of it was good but the last two months were awful. The human part of her was gone, she was just an animal that resembled my mom in pain beyond pain, couldn't talk, just lay there slowly writhing making tortured animal noises 'cause the medications weren't enough to control the pain.

I can't find any fault with anyone who chooses not to go down that path.

Tom

The only variation here is that the dose will be swallowed by her instead of injected by the doc.

What's she waiting on then? Money from selling her misery? I could understand that...doing whatever you can for you family before you go. Now, THAT would impress me. Especially if she doesn't do it.

Pat, I have been where you are. I have seen it too. Been in the room and seen the result, tagged the gun, and smelled the smells. You know what I'm talking about.

We just differ on what we see as understandable circumstances.

Armchair quarterbacking someone's life is as wrong as any other instance of speculation on circumstances that haven't been personally experienced. How do people die? How should they die? These are questions that only God can answer. If you don't believe in God, you have a different perspective. I will stick with a belief in God.

There is nothing to tear at your heart, as to have a conversation with your daughter that is battling cancer and have her tell you she doesn't want to die. Being afraid of dying is different. For years we talked about everything, death wasn't something we talked about, but as the years progressed we understood it could shorten her life, substantially.

She was a wonderful person, robbed of one of her most valuable possessions, time. There is nothing fair about cancer and to try and understand it from a human perspective is impossible. I believe in God and that His plan, though different than mine, is somehow better.

We didn't talk about a convenient time for her to end her life, we stood by her and hoped for any miracle that would save her. It never happened and I sat in a hospital room, holding her hand as she took her last breath and cried.

That has been almost 4 years ago, I still cry every day, there is nothing like the loss of a child.

I see two different philosophies here. Some of us want to have absolute control and try to compartmentalize our lives for some satisfaction of control and organization. To those who do that, I am not condemning them, but I feel a stronger association with God and that it isn't up to us to make our lives so convenient that we forget who we are and why we are here.

Cancer is a merciless killer and I can't understand it, I miss Paige every day...