tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191579.post7872334639984718545..comments2023-08-16T05:36:02.314-05:00Comments on a revolution without dancing: some matters of life and deathcrackers and cheesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15903450123621135348noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191579.post-37311965216835361662008-11-10T20:40:00.000-06:002008-11-10T20:40:00.000-06:00This is a really complicated issue. I've told fami...This is a really complicated issue. I've told family members and close friends that I would like to go ahead and pass on, rather than spending life in a vegetative state. Death is so hard; of course I would want to do anything I could to keep loved ones alive until, like you said, the Creator has chosen to take them. But reading what you wrote (and the prophets wrote) about the full restoration that comes in Heaven makes me wonder why we hold onto this life so much.<BR/><BR/>I've only watched an episode or two of Grey's Anatomy, and I'm pretty sure I cried.Carahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07339032483818529474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191579.post-66981256942619164592008-11-10T14:51:00.000-06:002008-11-10T14:51:00.000-06:00Right, and I don't understand how allowing someone...Right, and I don't understand how allowing someone to starve to death is acceptable, legal, and "humane," but causing a painless, physician-assisted death is considered less humane than that. I'm sorry that your grandmother and your family had to go through that experience :(crackers and cheesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15903450123621135348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191579.post-14823017585112990512008-11-10T08:02:00.000-06:002008-11-10T08:02:00.000-06:00This is a lovely post, Kelly. I think your thought...This is a lovely post, Kelly. <BR/><BR/>I think your thoughts and your heart are in the right place, but I have to admit I feel a differently about physician-assisted suicide. My great grandmother was bedridden, on feeding tubes, and in a vegetative state in a nursing home for years. I never remember her being able to talk to me. In this situation, I would never presume to judge the actions of my family. I fully know that they did what they thought was best for her. But if I were her, I think I would have done something to ensure that I didn't have to live in a state of being like that. Rather than pulling the feeding tube and dying somewhat agonizingly like she did, I think I would have preferred to have some kind of physician-assisted measure performed before I ever got to that point.The Pensive Poethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11543382066991071178noreply@blogger.com