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mokutou t1_jc8kez5 wrote

Reply to comment by BARRYTHUNDERWOOD in Conn. woman 1st non-Vermonter granted assisted suicide right by getBusyChild

Yes. I worked in nursing on a critical care unit, and provided care for numerous end-of-life patients. While most families respect the wishes of their dying kin, not all of them do. Two cases stick out in my mind.

One was a woman with widely metastasized cancer who was in unbearable pain, and wanted desperately to be made comfortable and allowed to pass peacefully. Her grown daughter argued with her, then once her mom was asleep from the morphine, she rescinded her mom’s DNR and stop all (yes, all) of her pain medications because she said we forced them on her to make her agree to Comfort Measures Only (our order set for continuously titrated morphine, among other steps, to make patients comfortable and allow them to naturally pass away.) As she was her next of kin, that is very much legal for her to do once her mom was incapacitated. She said it was only God’s decision as to when her mother died. Fortunately her mom prevailed and she passed on her terms, without pain.

The second was a very old woman who literally had half of one lung left after cancer took the rest. She was in horrible pain, unable to come off the vent, was in kidney failure after prolonged mechanical ventilation, and plagued by pressure sores that developed rapidly on her super fragile skin. She wanted to die, and asked to stop all interventions, but her daughter sued to prevent us from enacting CMO (even though her mom requested it.) An injunction prevented us from giving her any narcotics until Ethics and Legal got things handled. Meanwhile, her mom straight up suffered. It really fucks with your head when you are the caregiver in that situation.

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Williamplimpy t1_jc8ibbl wrote

Reply to comment by rideontime87 in Conn. woman 1st non-Vermonter granted assisted suicide right by getBusyChild

Rich people also succeed or attempt to kill themselves, and as with most suicidal people, it’s usually out of irrational depression, not the calculated pain that the article is about.

In the standard suicide case, a majority of people say who survive say they do not wish they had died.

Don’t try to shove everything into a class framework; there is inequality, there is exploitation, but to ignore the direct causes of things is madness.

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dofffman t1_jc8hw27 wrote

Reply to comment by Has_hog in Conn. woman 1st non-Vermonter granted assisted suicide right by getBusyChild

OMG! My father had demetia for a long time. His hands shriveled up and his body was like doll relative to his head. He could not form any speech and not because of the brain damage but because of the nero degeneration (granted his brain damage was such that if he could speak it would make no sense because that was the way he was the last time he had the capacity). End of life on a bed eathing through straws I so hope that is not my end.

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SheepishSheepness t1_jc8foxf wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Conn. woman 1st non-Vermonter granted assisted suicide right by getBusyChild

This is a false equivalence; bodily autonomy only concerns matters specific to your body. Driving a car affects the bodies of people around you, putting them in danger. When people argue for bodily autonomy, they want the right to make decisions about their body which don’t infringe on the material well-being of others.

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KayInMaine t1_jc8eygm wrote

Reply to comment by KarateKid72 in US approved 192 licenses for exports to blacklisted Chinese firms early 2022 by Neo2199

The republicans have always distrusted Russia. Hate might not be the right word, but they have always distrusted Russia.

It's the democrats who now blame everything on Russia, and the republicans laugh at the democrats for it. The Democrats have lost their minds!

President Trump being a businessman has always been a negotiator. He doesn't have to like the person he's negotiating with but the entire time he was in his presidency, he had Americans' best interest at heart. Can't say that about the current guy who is a bloodthirsty warmonger.

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BARRYTHUNDERWOOD t1_jc87u0h wrote

Reply to Conn. woman 1st non-Vermonter granted assisted suicide right by getBusyChild

I realize that there are politicians and organizations who are opposed to this option, but are there any actual people who are against it? Like individual humans? I don’t think I’ve ever met a single person who voiced anything but support for it, and even here on the internet the comments are just endlessly in favor of this right.

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