🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:56:45 GMT, d-moss@adfa.oz.au (David Moss)
wrote:

>s325282@student.uq.edu.au (Bill) wrote:
>
>>Hell if these group of people have terminal illness would
>>they reconsider their position .Euthanasia give us a choice 
>>to die , when it is no longer worth the pain to live . If these
>>anti euthanasia brigade don't like it , then don't use it .
>>Simple as that .
>
>Fraid its not as simple as that Bill.
>Check out
>http://octarine.cc.adfa.oz.au/~dmoss/living/resource/kevorkia.htm
>for a chilling example of how your "choice to die" has already been
>perverted in the good ole US of A.
>
>BTW, did you know morphine has no upper threshold limit to pain
>relieving action ? I didn't till I read around a bit. 

I've been steadfastly refusing to enter into this debate, but that
last sentence did it.
You may be right about the ability of morphine to relive pain David,
but I had to watch the way in which it does it just a few years ago.
The patient was my father, who was suffering from terminal lung
cancer.   I watched a proud, strong man reduced to an incoherent,
dribbling wreck by the massive doses of morphine it was taking to stop
the pain.  Near the end, he didn't know his wife, or any other member
of his family.  To see such a proud man in this state broke my heart,
and I know it was breaking his too.  Thankfully, the doctors did what
many have done before and administered that extra couple of cc's to
end it.
If you want to argue for strict controls, I'm right behind you.  But
knowing first hand what these people have suffered, I can't see how
anyone could deny that there comes a time when death with dignity is
the right thing. That's the problem with drugs, sure you stop the
pain, but the spirit dies faster for it.



Owen Dare

      owend@globec.com.au
http://www.globec.com.au/~owend/