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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
It's interesting.
Most people, when asked a similar question, will all respond identical to the above.
However, when push comes to shove, they cannot make the decision to pull the plug (if allowed) and they certainly wouldn't back legislation for others to do so.
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I never looked into it but we probably held on to my mother longer than we should have. I think mainly for my dad to come to grips with it. Being married for 58 years tends to make it hard to say good bye. She was on dialysis for a week or two with minimal results that were only delaying the inevitable. So we sat dad down and basically told him it was OK to say good bye. He agreed and we put her in a hospice and let her go. Hardest thing I have ever had to do but none of us wanted t see her suffer like that any more.
I cannot understand how someone can sit idly by and let a loved one suffer or waste away. I would have thought the results would be opposite. Te folks who are not in the situation would be against it on moral grounds and the folks who are or were in the situation would be the ones for it.
Go figure.
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