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From: Andy.Anderson@p11.f116.n138.z1.fidonet.org (Andy Anderson)
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Subject: Re: Euthanasia
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Date: 24 Apr 91 17:32:27 GMT
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Hello Ann!

Answering a msg of <01 Apr 91>, from Ann Parsons to Andy Anderson:

(a continuation) As cruel or harsh as it may sound at the moment,
*I* believe this problem has to be one based on finances and/or the
lack of same. Should we be required to spend our life savings to
keep a person that is in perpetual pain and in a coma and already
90 yrs old and bed ridden, alive ?, Then have nothing to provide
for ourselves? In some instances, it seems to *Me* that to prolong
life under some circumstances would be the same as torture. That is
why I think we need to consider each case on its own merits,
another reason why a state or federal medical plan should be
implimented,Then the degree or quality of medical attention would
be the same for every patient, because the "affordability or
ability to pay" would be removed from the patient or his/her
survivors. I could go on and on about this, but I don't want to
start arguing "but what if's" because for every time we say if
somebody else can come up with a but what if this, or if
that........and all this time we are still spending $$$,we have to
accept the inevitable sometime (I can only pray that we don't have
to make one of these decisions).

Andy

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