Assisted suicide or legal murder? Sad story of a terminally ill woman who gathered friends and family to 'celebrate' before her suicide
This is a sad story of a woman who chose death by doctor-assisted suicide.
Let me start by saying that assisted suicide is now legal in some countries including Canada, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium and up to about 4 states in the USA.
Euthanasia and assisted suicide are alike because both involve the deliberate act of ending one's life in order to relieve that one from suffering. They are considered as murder in other countries and punishable by law.
California recently legalized doctor-assisted suicide and terminally ill 41 yr old Betsy Davis who was said to have lost control of her body was one of California's first recipient of the lethal dose that ended her life in the doctor assisted suicide.
To say goodbye before her suicide, she invited friends and family to a 2-day party with one condition: No crying in front of her.
Sick Davis worked out a detailed schedule for the unusual gathering for 23-24 July plus the precise hour she planned to slip into coma. She shared these plans with her guests.
Wearing a Japanese Kimono, she looked out at her last sunset and took the drugs at 6.45pm with her caretaker, her doctor, her sister and her massage therapist by her side. She died 4 hours later.
Sad, sad, sad.
Someone said, "I don’t think it makes sense to prevent people who wish to die from doing so." Mmmh?
Okay let's reason it: these people are in excruciating pains (eg cancer patients) and they would die anyway, so why let them go through it when they choose to end their lives and save themselves the unbearable pain?
Sounds logical, right? But does it make it acceptable?
No man has any right to take a life he did not create. No man. And I bet you, with the introduction of this doctor-assisted suicide, this law will be abused because people will see it as a quick way out of their misery, terminally ill or not.
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| Betsy Davis |
Euthanasia and assisted suicide are alike because both involve the deliberate act of ending one's life in order to relieve that one from suffering. They are considered as murder in other countries and punishable by law.
To say goodbye before her suicide, she invited friends and family to a 2-day party with one condition: No crying in front of her.
Sick Davis worked out a detailed schedule for the unusual gathering for 23-24 July plus the precise hour she planned to slip into coma. She shared these plans with her guests.
Wearing a Japanese Kimono, she looked out at her last sunset and took the drugs at 6.45pm with her caretaker, her doctor, her sister and her massage therapist by her side. She died 4 hours later.
Sad, sad, sad.
Someone said, "I don’t think it makes sense to prevent people who wish to die from doing so." Mmmh?
Okay let's reason it: these people are in excruciating pains (eg cancer patients) and they would die anyway, so why let them go through it when they choose to end their lives and save themselves the unbearable pain?
Sounds logical, right? But does it make it acceptable?
No man has any right to take a life he did not create. No man. And I bet you, with the introduction of this doctor-assisted suicide, this law will be abused because people will see it as a quick way out of their misery, terminally ill or not.
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