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High Court Clashes Over Assisted Suicide - Yahoo! News

Friday, October 7th, 2005

High Court Clashes Over Assisted Suicide - Yahoo! News

Oh, lord… not this again. Terminally ill people can’t decide when and how to go? C’mon.

Does it seem like a contradiction with my feelings about suicide? Because to me it’s not the same thing. Not at all. Depression is a serious illness, yes it is. But it does not have to be a fatal illness. Some illnesses are terminal and fatal. Sometimes a person is dying and there’s no hope for survival - in that case, I believe that person has the right to decide when and how to leave this earth. Not the government.

Now… do people with depression have the right to end their lives? Of course they do. But they don’t have to - they may feel like they have to, but they don’t.

I’m having flashbacks to Jack Kevorkian getting sent to the pokey and Terri Schiavo’s parents shamelessly showing video images of her head rolling slowly back and forth on a pillow, as though following a moving object held over her head. (Did you read the ME’s report on her autopsy, by the way? It is believed that she was blind. BLIND.)

Anyway, right now I’m hearing stuff about terminally ill patients’ right to die being removed in Oregon, and now the right to choose whether or not to carry a child to term is up, too.

I am not in my Happy Place.

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