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Nothings sadder than walking through a Old Folks Home and seeing a loved one unresponsive and disheveled being fed through a tube inserted into their stomachs. Its heart breaking. Knowing I might wind up the same way has me sleepless at times. I believe NO self respecting human being wants to die like that and should have the right to "Check-Out" if they so choose. PS: I MISS YOU DAD

it happens a lot. doctors and nurses know patient is suffering and has little time left. They keep increasing the morphine until the end.

If the patient makes the decision Ok. He will need to deal with GOD.

I believe in eunthanasia for the terminally ill of any age not only the elderly. Having seen first hand some of the suffering I can speak, or in this case type, with some degree of knowledge. I know there are those who call it murder and claim it is Gods way (again) For a all loving God He appears to be pretty brutal. I HAVE A DNR IN MY WILL IF I EVER GET THAT BAD PLEASE ALLOW ME TO DIE AS I HAVE LIVED> WITH DIGNITY> A DNR IS DO NOT RESUSCITATE

It is not a human right to end someone elses life. It is murder pure and simple.

Let the hand of God determine when the eldery should leave this planet. On the other hand, someone who is very ill and/or loses there cognitive skills poses a huge problem for family, medicine and society. There is no easy solution. Strange, we struggle to live and often struggle to die. Must have been so much simpler for past generations who were considered 'old' at fifty.

Haven't had to face this issue and hope to avoid.... I'm 70 and hope never to face this huge concern.

It becomes a matter of the value we place on human life. Like abortion it becomes a decision of whether a person has a right to life and that decision is being made by someone else who feels that life is a burdon on their life style. After awhile it becomes a decision made by the state as euthanasia becomes more popular. Value placed on a person life will become market driven. It is inevitable.If you cannot prove your right to exist then you will die.If your productive output percentage doesn't exceed your intake percentage then you will die.

Value of human life has been becoming cheaper ever since Roe v Wade became law. Life there is based on a whim. Dont want it, kill it. Cant afford it right now, kill it. Cheap life, Cheap death. If we are bound to have our lives judged based on cost analysis and our ability to serve the common good then maybe we should be killed and turned into food to feed those more worthy. Then at least we can be served up as something good, eh?

The matter of personnal choice to die when our bodies no longer serve us, kill us to make way for the next generation of cheap life coming down the pike. At least they can serve the public some good. I believe the bible says it correctly, "for to live is Christ." To live and to let live defines us as a moral and just people. To kill for the sake of a whim or for cost analysis is a path to an immoral and unjust society.

I was just remembering a good movie I watched not more then a month ago, we rented it from the red box.

Anyway its about >>> Jack Kevorkian the Doctor who helped those that wanted to die due to serious illness... watch it, its a good answer to your question...

Susan Sarandon, John Goodman join Al Pacino in Jack Kevorkian movie / here a link to the write up about the movie

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/detroit/index.ssf/2009/07/susan_sarandon_john_goodman_jo.html

Yes its their life and we should have the right to end it when we choose. I am talking about an older person who may be very sick or dying. For that matter a thermally Ill person period, of age of course.