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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 09:14 PM
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Dear CNN & Anderson C., If I'm Old &/OR Infirm I *want* Mercy Killing
Edited on Wed Oct-12-05 09:58 PM by UTUSN
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If a hurricane is coming and you don't have transportation -----------OR WHATEVER-------

What do YOU do?
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 09:16 PM
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1. Another Thing: Where Is Aaron BURR or BROWN or Whatever
Why is Anderson COOPER taking over Aaron BRONW'S show/circus?
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indie_voter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 09:23 PM
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2. Or if you are lying in a hospital bed with no hope
I watched my dad struggle in pain his last days. We had to pull his feeding tubes at the end, thankfully he died less than 24 hours later.

Others are not so lucky. It is kinder to end it quickly than allow somebody to suffer for days, weeks or worse months or years.

We were lucky in that my dad made it clear to everyone, he didn't want to be kept alive artificially.

The last few hours he was lucid he tried to reassure us, for us not to worry too much, that we were all organic matter and sooner or later this has to happen.

It was too soon.

He would have loved the recent political happenings, he was lamenting on his death bed that this crooked group "won".


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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 09:24 PM
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3. My Wishes Are Clear. Loveya, Whoever You Are n/t
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 09:25 PM
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4. If you're lucid enough to ask for it, I have no problem
If you're in pain and don't ask for it, then giving you an overdose of morphine is pre-meditated murder.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 09:29 PM
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5. Yeah, But, Are Johnny ROBERTS & Bummy MIER Gonna LET Me? n/t
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