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1. How do you feel about terminally ill or elderly patients requesting a medical facility to terminate their life?
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Part of the illness causes depression and several other mental health issues. Some alzheimer patients sometimes become psychotic with the drug treatments. Given the mental disorders that can occur with several illnesses, it would be inherently inhumane to allow this kind of practice in this country.
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2. What is your stance on euthanasia? Is it humane?
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In a perfect system, euthanasia in NEVER humane. But given our system and how it's done with animals is to minimize pain and suffering. That gauge is set very high and is not allowed by several laws in place to protect people's human and civil rights.
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3. With considerations to what happened to Terri Schiavo, how do you feel about others making that decision to terminate that life?
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Others are not allowed to terminate anyone's life. If you review Ms. Schiavo's case, they essentially unplugged her and she "expired". A husband has the right to make that call. However, if she had survived on her own--i.e. breathing and heart beat, they would have done nothing beyond what was allowable.
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4. Do you have a DNR in place? Would you consider it? Who do you best think would make the right decision?
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A DNR order is not going to protect your wishes. ONLY a living will and trust and a health directive will in a court of law.
Think of it this way, you come in from a very bad car accident, you are mangled. Then you cough up blood and you go into cardiac arrest. Would you NOT want the team to put the AED on you because of a DNR order?
What about a routine simple outpatient surgery? For some reason you OD'ed on the Servoquel mix. Do you want them to NOT do all that is in their pharmacopoeia power to revive you--even if it is just enough smelling salts?
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5. Do you think any kind of legislation that broadens a person's right to take their own life due to terminal illness or age, would make things better or worse for US citizens?
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I think it will make things worse for some people. We have a problem with health disparities in this country. And childhood healthcare for ALL children is foul. Mothers are NOT allowed to be with their children 6 weeks after birth, whereas other advanced countries allow upto 2 years of PAID mother leave to care for infants.
Moreover, disabled people get jacked constantly. Let's not even go there with what happens to their insurance and job placement.
And if freedom to die is passed, do not be mentally retarded in this country. You can forget it.
I think our healthcare crises should be fixed first before we start culling our colonies down with people. Yes, there will be exorbitant costs, but I think that will be up front money that will pay off in the future. And to fix healthcare costs will be a dynamic process that will need constant review every 2,3,5,10+ years. I'd rather have a fair and equitable system that what we have now with a bunch of hypochondriacs.
If folks feel the need to kill themselves, then there are plenty of illegal actions that one can do to make that happen.
But, I would not allow any healthcare worker with that kind of power to do it. What would that person LOOK like? The "Angel of Death"?
I think is how one lives his or her life that makes all the difference...