What a dreadful speech, full of claims that cannot be supported, for example: "People who are vulnerable, people who are weak, people who are frail, they will be killed and they will be pressurised to die. They will be pressurised, sometimes by greedy relations, sometimes by overworked physicians, most often by themselves." I have never encountered such views and at my age I have seen lots of deaths. I don't just want to be alive, I want quality of life and I believe that means my right to life includes ending it in a dignified way. I don't want to suffer the hell of a care home or NHS hospital.
I have been in 3 situations where I was the health-care proxy who had to make decisions. It is overwhelming and certainly not anything you can prepare for. Especially during the Covid pandemic time when I had to pull my car over on the Southern State Parkway to hear emergency room activity with those electric paddle things hitting my sister then hearing them call her time of death. Covid. Ten days later another sister died, and I had to hear that too in my car. I had no say in anything what with the Covid protocols that were in place.
Neither of them had a DNR document, and I always felt that one of my sisters was efficiently helped on her way. The other sister had better insurance.
Thank you, Mr. Phillips. I wasn't fishing for sympathy. I was expressing myself poorly. Decisions that should have been mine were being made by others.
I couldn’t agree more that the future will look back on abortion as insane
Sir Jacob, clean-up on Post 3. And 4.
What a dreadful speech, full of claims that cannot be supported, for example: "People who are vulnerable, people who are weak, people who are frail, they will be killed and they will be pressurised to die. They will be pressurised, sometimes by greedy relations, sometimes by overworked physicians, most often by themselves." I have never encountered such views and at my age I have seen lots of deaths. I don't just want to be alive, I want quality of life and I believe that means my right to life includes ending it in a dignified way. I don't want to suffer the hell of a care home or NHS hospital.
I have been in 3 situations where I was the health-care proxy who had to make decisions. It is overwhelming and certainly not anything you can prepare for. Especially during the Covid pandemic time when I had to pull my car over on the Southern State Parkway to hear emergency room activity with those electric paddle things hitting my sister then hearing them call her time of death. Covid. Ten days later another sister died, and I had to hear that too in my car. I had no say in anything what with the Covid protocols that were in place.
Neither of them had a DNR document, and I always felt that one of my sisters was efficiently helped on her way. The other sister had better insurance.
Thank you, Mr. Phillips. I wasn't fishing for sympathy. I was expressing myself poorly. Decisions that should have been mine were being made by others.
Uh oh.
These Dr. Mengele references are unsettling. They are just popped into the thread which makes it seem I approve. I do not.
Dr. Mengele and Charleton Heston? What happened to this thread? Mengele wasn’t around when I posted here. This is bad.