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07-26-2011, 11:47 PM
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Re: Peter Smedley Assisted Suicide
So beautiful. I want to go like that if I ever get terminally ill... |
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#102
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07-28-2011, 11:46 AM
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Re: Peter Smedley Assisted Suicide
Wow. This moved me on a number of levels. I believe people have the right to choose when they have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. What most people in the US don't know is Sir Terry Pratchett has Alzheimer's disease, which also is a terminal illness. My mother also has Alzheimer's disease, and you spend years (for me 11 years so far) watching someone fade away. It is hard on the patient, but brutal on family. Most neurological diseases, like Mr. Smedley had, are slow progressing diseases that wipe out the family along with the patient. I imagine the wife is unemotional because when a long-term disease starts, you start grieving then. Every loss of function you grieve. My mom is end-stage now and we still might have a year to go. I honestly don't know if I will have any tears left at the end. The person I knew is long gone.  |
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#103
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07-28-2011, 01:04 PM
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 My Rank: GUNNERY SERGEANT Poster Rank:625 Male Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,438 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 11 Post(s)
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Re: Peter Smedley Assisted Suicide
The mood in that room must have been really strange. Knowing that it's for the best, but feeling all that sadness. This is a powerful moment captured on film.
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07-19-2012, 05:31 PM
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 My Rank: MASTER SERGEANT Poster Rank:519 male Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 1,972 Mentioned: 1 Post(s) Quoted: 127 Post(s)
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Re: Peter Smedley Assisted Suicide
RIP brave man. "He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever."
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#108
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07-19-2012, 05:57 PM
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 My Rank: MAJOR Poster Rank:42 Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 34,961 Mentioned: 193 Post(s) Quoted: 17644 Post(s)
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Re: Peter Smedley Assisted Suicide
I have some experience with seconol. I can say you feel nothing you just go to sleep and never wake up with a large enough dose.
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#109
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07-19-2012, 09:46 PM
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 My Rank: CORPORAL Poster Rank:1286 Male Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 476 Mentioned: 1 Post(s) Quoted: 76 Post(s)
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Re: Peter Smedley Assisted Suicide
Wow! The posts are overwelmingly in favor of the right to choose death instead of continuing to suffer in agony and to overburden those around us. Those that oppose this right, for the right reasons, don't have a clue and are the ones that are selfish in their own beliefs. RIP sir....
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