In an effort to promote intellectual discourse:
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Oregon assisted suicide law today. A particular article I read suggested that this ruling would open the door to more individual state laws endorsing assisted suicide. The Oregon law requires that two doctors diagnose the patient with six months or less to live. "Under the law, terminally ill patients have to wait 15 days from the time they apply for the medications to the day they get them, to give them time to think over their decision" (Tim Fought, AP).
I remember discussing Jack Kevorkian in high school. He was technically breaking the law, but this Oregon law has been ruled legitimate. What do opals think of the decision?
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most definitely: let the bitch choose when they gunna die. best they do it THEMselves than i gotta come in there and clean up dey stank ass after they rot away.
Duly noted, G-Dawg.
I think this sort of issue is more relevant than ever; medicines are keeping people's bodies alive longer than their minds. This makes it even harder to decide when an elderly person is deciding to die. Seriously though-- the later years for so many people are completely devoid of quality of life, and who the fuck are we to judge? Who are we to keep someone from choosing to die? I think it's insane to tell a terminally ill person that they don't have a right to choose their time of death, or that they have to through a painful death process to satisfy someone else's religious preferences.
ps. thanks for the music suggestions T.
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