Have to agree with you Don. Not enough information. When my mother passed away a little over a year ago, was extremely upset about how she was forced to suffer for about 12 hours because of the laws in this country are too stringent about prolonging life when it's absolutely not able to be saved. This is in no way saying that this poor lady is in the same boat as my mother, who passed away of complications from chemotherapy and cancer, but there definitely needs to be some changes in the law for terminally ill patients.
It's sad when we treat our animals better than we do our own relatives sometimes. They did eventually turn up the morphine, but I could still tell she was feeling too much. It's still pisses me off just to think about it. Quadius On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Don Price <[email protected]> wrote: > My initial reaction was the same as Glenn's: what a waste that she took > her own life. I also understand Greg's viewpoint that only she knew her > life. > > The article didn't give us enough information to make any "judgement" > call. So many questions not addressed: > > 1. did she receive adequate rehab? > 2. did she have peer support? > 3. was she in 'agony' due to physical or mental discomfort? were these > issues addressed? > 4. did she have mental health issues before her injury? > 5. was she given the assistive technology to allow her maximum > independence? [e.g. could she get out of her house, or access a computer?] > etc. etc. > > Without such info I cannot say I admire or condemn her actions, but either > way it's a sad story. > > Don. > > *From:* Greg <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Thursday, February 16, 2012 12:59 PM > > *Subject:* Re: [QUAD-L] What a freakin waste of a life > > I admire the woman. In my judgement, she and only she knew what was right > for her. Can you imagine how difficult those two months were for her and > her mom? Some of it must have been agonizing. I'm not sure I could do > what she did. > > When the book becomes available in something other than EPUB format, I'll > buy it. > > > From The Huffington Post, > > There's an old saying that artists have to suffer, but after six years of > paralysis, Christina Symanski decided she had suffered enough. > > > > >
