Give Me Death with Dignity or Give Me Death!

Sometimes, it seems like the anti-choice nuts believe only rapists, murderers, and terrorists have a Right to Die. From day one, Bush and his bible-thumping cronies have made it their number one priority to interfere with the natural dying process of unborn fetuses, the terminally ill, and cumbersome ex-wives. That's why I am overjoyed that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently broke Ashcroft's fascist stranglehold on Oregon's Death with Dignity program, and Oregon doctors can now get back to the business of killing their patients. But I am also dismayed that Oregon hasn't taken the necessary steps to cut through the red tape so that everyone who needs to die can do so quickly and efficiently.

Under the current law, a doctor prescribes a lethal dose of medication to a terminally ill patient, who takes the drugs home to consume. But that doesn't take into consideration those unfortunate people who are too sick and weak to take the drugs themselves. Should they be condemned to suffer in unbearable pain simply because they cannot lift an arm to pop a pill? Is it too much to ask that a loved one be allowed to administer the medication for them? Can't a person die peacefully, in the comfort of their own home, in the gentle hands of someone they love and cherish?

Another troubling aspect of Oregon's Death with Dignity program is that it requires the patient be of "sound mind" and actually consent to being euthanized. Once again, people who experience excruciating pain day-in and day-out, with no relief, rarely find themselves of "sound mind", and they are often too sick to move let alone sign a pile of legal papers. Wouldn't a cherished loved one know better than a group of silly lawyers when it's time for them to pass on?

Even more strange is Oregon's requirement that the person seeking Death with Dignity have less than six months to live. Why must we wait until a loved one is wasting away, wracked with unimaginable pain and bereft of any "dignity" before we grant them "Death with Dignity"? Wouldn't you want to leave this world when you're happy and in complete control of your faculties, rather than when you're bedridden and shitting yourself every ten minutes?

For that matter, why must we use harmful drugs to end their suffering? Drugs are bad, right? So why can't we just walk up behind Uncle Ernie while he's typing and whack him across the skull with a tire iron? Dead is dead, and he's going to die anyway. Cancer runs in the family - you know he'll get it eventually. It would be doing him a favor if you ended it now. Heck, in a few years, he'll be begging you to do it.

And you might as well make the rounds and take out Cousin Betty while you're at it. She has high
cholesterol, and smokes like a chimney. Won't be long before Doctor Bob catches a spot on her x-ray. Besides, the bitch votes Republican. If anyone needs to die, it's her. Why not show some compassion and put the slut out of her misery? Go on, give her a taste of the ol' Death With Dignity.

In fact, why don't we just take the "Dignity" part out of the equation? It's too restrictive. Where does Ashcroft get off putting THAT monkey on our backs? Maybe they don't DESERVE to die with dignity. Maybe they deserve to die SCREAMING for mercy as flames consume their gasoline-soaked flesh. Maybe next time that YUPPIE PRICK will think twice about parking his stupid gas-guzzling SUV in my spot!

Comments

[Bad Commie]

I know who doesn't deserve death with dignity! Halli-Bush-itler, that's who! A Rabid weasel should be attached to his gonads to gnaw at them until texas tea comes out!

The christian right wing choice hating corporate big wigs have conspired with the evil french attorney general for the last time! Just think, ashcroft is telling people how to die! He is like putting people in concetration camp ovens run by evil ibm! Are we gonna stand for this!!!

[JannyMae]

Interesting topic. Dare I hope that this is a typo: "have less than sex months to live." This post reminds me of a poster I saw in a local restaurant: "I want to die peacefully like Grandpa, NOT screaming and crying, like the passengers in his car."

[Liberal Larry]

DOH!

[Cheney W. Halliburton]

Any death you can walk away from is a dignified death. After all the heart surgeries I've had, I know what I'm talking about.

[LarryH]

Any fetus that's willing to submit an affidavit, instead of goofing off for a nine month free ride, will be spared that special Death With Dignity(DWD). Let's weed out the slackers. LiberalLarry, you're a genius.

In about two decades there will be an epidemic of hearing loss among men who drive around with that auto BOOM box which annoys us from a block away. The Tire Iron technique seems oh-so-fitting as we get behind them, we say that they may decline DWD if they so choose, then follow through on THEIR WISH as expressed by their silence or their verbal declining.

[LarryH]

Here's a Wierd Rumor

How many folks have heard this rumor? The rumor is, that we all eventually die(that none of us live forever.)

Back when the cloning issue cropped up, maybe 5 years ago, I started running into people who would say, "We shouldn't live forever." My response to these zealots was, "Well if you think we shouldn't live forever, simply pass a law that a person would be executed on his 254,750,122nd birthday - - a lil' over 254 million years ain't so bad."

But then these folks claimed that hardly anybody lives more than 100 years! Have any of you run into these crazies? What a odd rumor to pass around.

[Sobek]

Larry, you're a sick piece of crap. Sick, I say! I love it. But you're sick.

[Redd Foxx]

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

[La Femme Crickita]

Is Schiavo using your parking spot? Inquiring minds...
And I am all for DWD. Shrillery said she and Billy Goat she married had 'living trusts.' Uh huh. Wonder how THOSE were worded.

[Cheney W. Halliburton]

Crickita, that strikes me as implausible. I can't imagine any kind of trust being within a mile of those two and living.

[aelfheld]

Liberal Larry, I don't know if you're happy, and I seriously doubt the soundness of your mind, but, these minor quibbles aside, I think you're an excellent candidate for preemptive euthanasia. Sort of 'pour encourager les autres'.

[Mat]

Eat right. Exercise daily. Die anyway.

[JannyMae]

Mr. Cheney W. Halliburton: You crack me up!

[La Femme Crikcita]

Touche, Cheney. I remember hearing about it on that Conservative pundit's radio show. Rush Limbaugh. Ohohoh. Tipper Gore, after Slick Willie was elected, took to the airwaves in an attempt to counter the national nausea over his attaining the White House and counseled people to see a doctor if they had signs of depression. You think the rise in the use of antidepressants among adults in the last ten years is connected somehow?

I know that among military spouses when there is a deployment chocolate and junk food consumption goes way up, along with the ritual eating of the Snickers Bar, washed down with copious amounts of Dr. Pepper.

[Cheney W. Halliburton]

And I own quite a lot of stock in Dr Pepper (note: no period after "Dr"). Coincidence? What do you think? [evil, maniacal cackle]

[Better than You]

Ya miss me? Anyways, the obvious hidden message in Death with Dignity is that Liberals are idiots. Not opinion, but truth. Meh, just having a little fun.

Fact is, what this law does, is prevent Suicide. What you suggest would return us to the Dr. Kevorkian fad of the 90's.

This is the last appearance of Better than You. To get my message out, I must have a less demeaning name. You will know

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There is a LAW on the books in one of the STATES that basically says, "Some People just need killing", and certain forms of Euthanasia qualify in my eyes.

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