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In article <visualiz-ya02408000R2404970136410001@news.ont.com>, visualiz@ont.com (Darcy Brown) says:
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>point. However, we tend to let Technology play the part of GOD. We try show
>off the power we have of keeping a dead person alive and killing a person
>who is alive. If there is a cure for a disease and you go to the hospital,
>they should heal you not kill you. If you want to commit suicide-do it at
>your own house and on your own time. It is not in the job description, or
>it should not be, for a doctor to kill you when he has the means to heal
>you. If there is no cure, I am sorry, but let nature do its thing. We all
>face it  at some point, some more painfully than others, but you cannot
>make it someone else's responsibility or task to kill you.
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I wonder if you (and others who think like you who are not very old and
in good health) when *you* are on your death-beds, or have some accident and
go into a decline as has happened to my friend Fred whom I 'posted' about.

Bloody-well use your imaginations, you fools! 

I once had a very old frail lady ringing me in dispair. She had tried to do
the 'bag' method on herself, and had failed. Of course. Even that method 
needs careful thinking and planning and an ability to manipulate the 
(admittedly simple) 'apparatus' properly. Yes, people who wish to die rather
than drag on horribly to slow inevitable death *need* help. Denying them 
that help is an act of insult to life - the life that we all know has to
end sometime so it might as well end when death is drawing near and the
scrap of life we have left is a terrible burden to us. To force us to go
on to the bitter end is an insult to life. *It* is morbidity, whereas the
reasonable wish to die is a tribute to a life lives as well as we've been
able.

You say you are sorry. I hesitate to wish it on you but I almost hope that
one day you *will* be sorry. Or perhaps you will to your own chagrin bless
us who are campaigning for voluntary euthanasia, for what it may do for 
you when you need it.

Brian