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[shamus11]

Euthanasia If You Please

By

James Bredin

If we have a right to live; do we have a right to die?
Are we denied freedom of choice here and we don’t know why?
Who would know the answer and do they really care?
If we live or die in pain and sorrow or in prayer.

Of course I’d like to live to at least a hundred plus,
But the odds of doing this are too low to discuss,
So I have to face the fact that eventually I’ll die,
But how will I do it and when and where and why?

If they told me I would be dead in months or days,
Should I wait patiently or plan that final exit phase?
And where would I go to get some assistance?
Despite all that pompous pious legal resistance.

And would they think of me as some sort of nut?
If I preempted that date and maybe took a shortcut?
I realize of course, this is not the accepted way,
To pull a Sue Rodrequs and just go away.

I’m only thinking here so don’t go getting excited,
There’s lots more poetry coming and you’re invited,
To keep on reading this stuff for years and years to come,
Forget what’s up above; I’m not about to succumb.

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

http://jamesbredin0.tripod.com/numbertwelve/id7.html

[Nico]

shamus11 wrote: Euthanasia If You Please

By

James Bredin

If we have a right to live; do we have a right to die?
Are we denied freedom of choice here and we don’t know why?
Who would know the answer and do they really care?
If we live or die in pain and sorrow or in prayer.

Of course I’d like to live to at least a hundred plus,
But the odds of doing this are too low to discuss,
So I have to face the fact that eventually I’ll die,
But how will I do it and when and where and why?

If they told me I would be dead in months or days,
Should I wait patiently or plan that final exit phase?
And where would I go to get some assistance?
Despite all that pompous pious legal resistance.

And would they think of me as some sort of nut?
If I preempted that date and maybe took a shortcut?
I realize of course, this is not the accepted way,
To pull a Sue Rodrequs and just go away.

I’m only thinking here so don’t go getting excited,
There’s lots more poetry coming and you’re invited,
To keep on reading this stuff for years and years to come,
Forget what’s up above; I’m not about to succumb.

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

http://jamesbredin0.tripod.com/numbertwelve/id7.html



Another hot potato topic, but I'll throw in my two cents. I believe that if someone has no chance of recovery and is in serious pain with no way to fight it, then they should be allowed an out if they choose one.

Otherwise we are assauging our 'moral' convictions with someone else's agony. We judge them with our own contented eyes.

[Golddave]

I don't see what the fuss is, this is what I would do if I was in pain and going to die, buy two bottles of JD, put on some Nirvana, grab the side by side shottie, write letters to the ones I loved, load it with one buckshot, one solid, close the barrels, get pissed, just b4 you are about to pass out tape it to your head with duct tape and boom. All over, red rover.

[Saviz]

This is an impossible issue. If you let them die, then many more people will kill themselves that could one day recover, if u stop them from dieing, u are telling them how to live. I say we just walk away and pretend like it dont exist

[URallIgnorant]

The problem with this is how we tend to view life and death. Why not let someone choose to releive themselves from suffering, it is for terminal illnesses here don't forget.