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4. What's "tough" about it OP? If there is no mechanism for the person, demented or not, to change

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 02:28 PM

Jan 2017

their mind then it is a faulty, ill-conceived process that has to be changed. NOt only for the patient but how would you like to be one of those family members, haunted forever by your last memory of mom being you holding her down for a lethal injection. Yikes.

I cried for a month after my 22 yr old cat with congestive heart failure was euthanized and she had some moments of resisting - I dont know how ori f Id ever come back from it if it was my Mom.

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Euthanasia dilemma: Dutch doctor forced patient to follow through with death wish [View all] True Dough Jan 2017 OP

They murdered her, plain and simple. Mosby Jan 2017 #1

I'd say. If the woman is fighting then she changed her mind and is making it clear. LisaL Jan 2017 #2

We would not allow the same thing here. HassleCat Jan 2017 #3

What's "tough" about it OP? If there is no mechanism for the person, demented or not, to change Kashkakat v.2.0 Jan 2017 #4

Well, my own feeling True Dough Jan 2017 #9

There are no objective scientific tests for "sanity" vs. "insanity"- at best its a culturally biased Kashkakat v.2.0 Jan 2017 #12

Not everyone with Alzheimer's goes quickly True Dough Jan 2017 #13

No dilemma for me. Crunchy Frog Jan 2017 #5

My maternal grandmother had dementia Phoenix61 Jan 2017 #6

Not that simple. Buzz cook Jan 2017 #7

That's true True Dough Jan 2017 #10

Erm. Having recently been on the other side... politicat Jan 2017 #8

Thanks for sharing this, politicat True Dough Jan 2017 #11