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Steve

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Dr. Halbridge, in consultations with patients or their families, are routinely making tough decisions about the best way to die.

Doctors who perform it say it is based on carefully thought-out ethical principles in which the goal is never to end someone’s life, but only to make the patient more comfortable.

I'm sure it would be a most difficult decision for a family and a doctor to make... and the choice should be between the Patient, family and the doctor..

My wife and father in law dealt with this horrible choice when my mother in law was dieing of cancer.. unfortunately under British medical it is not the family, nor even the patients choice on whether to induce a coma.. so they were not part of the decision.. and were merely informed of when it would be started.. so they could make peace before she was medicated..

the begging look in her eyes was unbearable... and to this day I am not sure if it made it easier, or harder to accept..
 

HAY MAKER

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I used to take care of an old war hero,old geezer would get mad if you called him that, but he sure had the medals to prove it,anyway I read this article with interest as it was not that long ago he died,I would visit him every day at the VA hospital in San Antonio,walking the halls in the "DNR" ward late at night,was the saddest days of my life,the best of the best go there to die,and some of it was'nt pretty.
good luck
 
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