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From: Gary.Warren@f5.n382.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Warren)
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Subject: Re: Euthanasia
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Date: 14 May 91 15:01:09 GMT
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You ask whether voluntary euthanasia is selfish.  I ask why don't you
see that prolonging someone's life needlessly is at least EQUALLY
selfish??  As Nadine and I have said repeatedly, if the health system
isn't up to snuff in the first place and if the living standards of
that person are substandard (i.e. most nursing homes, no matter what
their lobbyists say), then euthanasia would be more humane than
sentencing him/her to live the rest of his/her life in that squalor.
BTW, my Living Will has now been signed, notarized, copied and (will
be) distributed.  It merely sez if I am comatose or brain dead without
hope of recovery for my parents to authorize no life support systems.
And, in the event my parents will not carry out my wishes then the
hospital and physicians are to fulfill them.  BUT if I am conscious and
alert, it is MY choice whether to have my life prolonged and in
whatever manner I see fit.
Again, if the right-to-lifers have a better way and the financial and
moral gumption to oversee that, I'll listen to whatever they have to
say.  But if not, they better butt out.
glw

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