Right to die

[KnockEmOuttt]

This past February, my grandmother (whom I was the closest to in the family) was diagnosed with cancer. We looked into options to fight it. Within two weeks of diagnosis she was bedridden in the hospital. She suffered there for a little over three weeks. It was apparent within the first days of her illness she wasn't going to get any better. She continued to suffer for those three weeks in total agony (she was a trooper and rarely complained, even though she had a tube literally running from her nose to her intestine draining the fluid that was blocking her up, she lived on no food for almost two weeks. Still, I knew that she was miserable.) She was ready to go, she wanted the pain to stop, but it just dragged on and on. I wanted so desperately for her suffering to end, as did she, but it took a month before the suffering stopped.

So tell me, why is it that she shouldn't have been given the option to have ended it?

I truly feel for you, I know it's painful for all. My aunt several years ago had cancer and died a miserable death and her suffering was extended because my uncle could not let her go, that was a terribly selfish thing for him to do, she wanted to go she was tired of the pain. So it could get worse if people who are involved become selfish. My father told us that when there was no hope to let him go, we loved him enough to do that, we kept him on morphine until he died so the pain of his body shutting down would not be so bad. I even prayed that if he was not to recover that God would go ahead and take him so he would not have to suffer. My church has prayed that God would take people who were not going to get well so they would not suffer and in most cases He called them home within a couple of days. We have prayed that prayer for those who earlier in their lives joined in those prayers of mercy, knowing they would be happy we loved them enough to ask God to end their suffering.
My uncle is proof we do not always have control over our own lives, if we do not want someone extending our lives we need to have a living will made out for our doctors, stating only to have pain killers and water, when one is not feed there is no pain suffered, so we do have some control over our death, but no one should have there lives shortened by what people call mercy killing. I know that doesn't make much sense to you especially after what I said about prayer, but I believe that our lives belong to God and His will should be allowed to the end of our lives. One never knows how God may be working with others.

All of this is reliant on there being a god in control of all of this. However god was obviously not a factor in this, since prayers in either direction had no effect (regardless of who was praying). The only things that were real during that time were the pain and the people experiencing it.

What you believe belongs to god is subjective opinion, it can't be enforced on people who don't agree with your belief (unless you suggest a theocracy.)

The truth is that if someone wants to die they have the right to, and you can't really stop them. Sure, you can make it difficult for them, but they'll do it sometime, somehow. The least we can give them is dignity.

And anyway, what would be wrong with someone in that state choosing to die? They're barely living anyway.