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In article <adm.859965492@ccadfa>, David Moss <adm@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au> wrote:
>
>Unless you somehow managed to inhabit my body for the duration, you
>have some cheek telling me about pain level. Fortunately its finished
>now, and I was right about the analgesic effects of pethedine.

Yet you consider yourself qualified to comment upon the pain level of
terminally ill patients, having not experienced the condition
yourself.

>The situation I described was only my most _recent_ experience.
>I do know what it is like to live in hospital for months,
>and I most certainly do know what it is like to recieve pain relief by
>the clock rather than as needed. (Morphine on that occasion)
>
>I am sorry your friend or relative suffered pain before death, but
>having recovered from a number of very painful hospitalisations myself.
>I choose to campaign for more effective palliative care rather than
>throw up my hands and offer euthanasia instead.

Terminally ill hospitalisations?  Congratulations upon your recovery.

And selectively ignore the real personal experiences related by 
those terminally ill who disagree with you regarding the benefits of 
palliative care in their particular circumstances, and have not had the
experience of the person you keep referring to on the 7:30 report (as
if anything can be proven by one example of success).  Moreover, you 
seek to remove from their reach the choice to die in the way they wish,
and to make their peace with their relatives and friends (and any other
entities real or imagined).  Effectively, given that these people could
otherwise have a choice, you impose your own (minority) preference,
and force these people to die in the way _you_ and others with your
view decide they should.

I am not sure what I would do if I found myself in the circumstances of
those who have and who wish to make use of the NT legislation, but I
sure don't see how I have the right to force my personal opinion upon
them in this matter.

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Dave Harsant,
Telstra Research Laboratories  |  d.harsant@trl.telstra.com.au