Re: Euthanasia

Apr 15, 2015

The last couple of weeks I have read letters to the editor from people opposing assisted suicide. I agree that people shouldn’t have the right to die for no reason, but that’s happening anyway; they are just doing it themselves and leaving their family shocked and grieving because they didn’t see what was happening.

The issue on the table is not about those people, it’s about people that are terminally ill with no hope of a cure. The decision won’t happen without evaluation. Doctors don’t intend to kill people just because they can.

My children and I sat beside my husband and watched him die of cancer. Don’t tell me he shouldn’t have had a choice. He literally died of starvation and dehydration caused by the cancer. There is nothing natural about dying with cancer and unless you have sat and helplessly watched someone die, I guess you won’t understand, that, if they were given the choice, they would take a needle and just go to sleep. He didn’t choose to die from cancer, and I’m quite sure it wasn’t one of God’s greater plans.

We had a dog that was a member of our family for eighteen years. In the end we didn’t let her suffer. Why would we do that to our loved ones if they or we had a choice?

I agree with the person that worries about the world she will leave behind to her grandchildren, but it’s not about assisted suicide; it’s about war and the killing that is going on all around us. It’s about more and more people dying every day because they can’t find a cure for cancer and many other afflictions. If things keep going the way they are, assisted suicide will be the least of our worries.

I am in my “golden years” and trust me, they aren’t all they're cracked up to be. Life happens.

- Lil Hoover