http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=16074

“Victoria Reggie Kennedy, the widow of longtime Senator Ted Kennedy, has taken a strong stand in opposition to “Proposition 2,” a statewide ballot initiative that would legalize physician-assisted suicide in Massachusetts.

The proposal “seems harsh and extreme to me,” wrote Victoria Kennedy in a column that appeared in the Cape Cod Times. “It’s not, in my judgment, about death with dignity at all,” she wrote, adding the measure stood in stark opposition to her late husband’s commitment to providing adequate health care for all citizens.

Proposition 2 is unjust, Kennedy wrote, because it is “intended to exclude family members from the actual decision-making process to guard against patients’ being pressured to end their lives prematurely.” She added that the bill also places undue weight on a doctor’s diagnosis that a patient has less than 6 months to live. Speaking from experience, the Senator’s widow notes that Ted Kennedy’s terminal cancer was discovered, he was told he had 4-5 months to live. “Because that first dire prediction of life expectancy was wrong, I have 15 months of cherished memories,” Victoria Kennedy said. “

http://www.dredf.org/assisted_suicide/Diane-Coleman-article-on-ABA-website.pdf

I even told some extended family members, that ‘she isn’t doing well’ FYI.

Later that week, she was out and about during Grandparents’ Day.

Six weeks later, she is still very much alive.

There is nothing dignifying or humane about killing oneself, even at the end stages of death. Doctors are indeed healers, and to insist they become accomplices is selfish on the part of the patient.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2012/08/03/barbara-rockett-physician-assisted-suicide-direct-conflict-with-doctor-role/l0W1Iqt695CK8pivBc4LlN/story.html?camp=pm

“More than 75 percent of the physician members of the Massachusetts Medical Society have voted to oppose physician-assisted suicide. Since their meeting in 1999, the members of the American Medical Association have voted to oppose physician-assisted suicide and have been consistent in their opposition, stating, “The AMA opposes physician-assisted suicide as antithetical to the role of the physician as healer. We are committed to providing the best end-of-life care.” At a meeting in 2003, the AMA went on to state, “Physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer, would be difficult or impossible to control, and would impose serious societal risks.”

The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine has imposed a requirement on physicians seeking to be licensed in Massachusetts that they must complete a course in end-of-life care and another in opioid prescribing. These courses educate the physician in the compassionate, considerate, and supportive care that must be offered to patients at the end of life. Reasonable prescribing of opioids should be offered only when necessary and should not be substituted for other needs such as treatment of depression.”

Women ,when pregnant have a ‘due day’, but really it is a ‘due month’. Every time I give birth I ask ‘how much longer’, 20 minutes or 20 hours?

You don’t know.

Remember Haleigh Poute?

Eight days after Poutre was admitted to the hospital, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that life-support equipment, including a feeding tube and ventilator, could be withdrawn. However, the day after the decision, health care attendants found that Poutre could breathe on her own and follow simple commands.[1]
In 2007, age 13, Poutre reportedly remained in rehabilitative care. The child abuse case against Jason Strickland has not been settled.
In February 2008, 14-year-old Poutre was reportedly making statements about her abuse.[1]

You never know….