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Right to die
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RE: Right to die
July 26, 2012 at 2:48 pm



I don't like hopping into a thread I haven't read, but I wanted to add this a few days ago. I hope I'm not repeating someone.

One of the problems with the "right to die" question is that many terminal patients suffer needlessly, not for lack of euthanasia, but for lack of adequate, professional and substantive pain management. A lot of end times patients suffer much more than they should because they are receiving substandard care in managing their pain, often the norm rather than the exception. (There are built in incentives in the system to encourage under treating pain.)

If doctors and the system could be changed so that proper pain management was the norm and not the exception, many of the "right to die" cases could become, if not happy, at least peaceful endings.
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Right to die - by Welsh cake - July 24, 2012 at 2:57 pm
RE: Right to die - by Shell B - July 24, 2012 at 2:59 pm
RE: Right to die - by 5thHorseman - July 24, 2012 at 3:59 pm
RE: Right to die - by Anomalocaris - July 24, 2012 at 3:00 pm
RE: Right to die - by Minimalist - July 24, 2012 at 3:01 pm
RE: Right to die - by libalchris - July 24, 2012 at 3:03 pm
RE: Right to die - by Whateverist - July 24, 2012 at 3:13 pm
RE: Right to die - by The Grand Nudger - July 24, 2012 at 3:24 pm
RE: Right to die - by Whateverist - July 24, 2012 at 5:01 pm
RE: Right to die - by MysticKnight - July 24, 2012 at 3:29 pm
RE: Right to die - by libalchris - July 24, 2012 at 3:32 pm
RE: Right to die - by The Grand Nudger - July 24, 2012 at 4:01 pm
RE: Right to die - by Reforged - July 24, 2012 at 10:50 pm
RE: Right to die - by genkaus - July 24, 2012 at 11:36 pm
RE: Right to die - by Reforged - July 24, 2012 at 11:56 pm
RE: Right to die - by Darth - July 25, 2012 at 12:16 am
RE: Right to die - by Godschild - July 25, 2012 at 12:58 am
RE: Right to die - by KnockEmOuttt - July 25, 2012 at 1:21 am
RE: Right to die - by Godschild - July 25, 2012 at 1:51 am
RE: Right to die - by KnockEmOuttt - July 25, 2012 at 2:50 am
RE: Right to die - by Reforged - July 25, 2012 at 11:30 am
RE: Right to die - by Godschild - July 25, 2012 at 4:52 pm
RE: Right to die - by Reforged - July 25, 2012 at 6:18 pm
RE: Right to die - by Godschild - July 26, 2012 at 2:01 am
RE: Right to die - by KnockEmOuttt - July 26, 2012 at 2:26 am
RE: Right to die - by Godschild - July 26, 2012 at 11:34 am
RE: Right to die - by KnockEmOuttt - July 26, 2012 at 2:36 pm
RE: Right to die - by Reforged - July 26, 2012 at 11:58 am
RE: Right to die - by Godschild - July 26, 2012 at 12:24 pm
RE: Right to die - by Reforged - July 26, 2012 at 12:34 pm
RE: Right to die - by libalchris - July 25, 2012 at 1:27 am
RE: Right to die - by genkaus - July 25, 2012 at 3:39 am
Re: Right to die - by NoraBrimstone - July 25, 2012 at 7:19 am
RE: Right to die - by The Grand Nudger - July 25, 2012 at 9:36 am
Re: Right to die - by NoraBrimstone - July 25, 2012 at 11:27 am
RE: Right to die - by Annik - July 25, 2012 at 11:39 am
Re: RE: Right to die - by NoraBrimstone - July 25, 2012 at 2:24 pm
RE: Right to die - by Ryantology - July 25, 2012 at 3:15 pm
RE: Right to die - by Faith No More - July 25, 2012 at 3:56 pm
RE: Right to die - by The Grand Nudger - July 25, 2012 at 6:19 pm
RE: Right to die - by Reforged - July 25, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Re: Right to die - by NoraBrimstone - July 26, 2012 at 5:38 am
RE: Right to die - by The Grand Nudger - July 26, 2012 at 8:33 am
RE: Right to die - by ib.me.ub - July 26, 2012 at 11:50 am
Re: RE: Right to die - by NoraBrimstone - July 26, 2012 at 1:42 pm
RE: Right to die - by The Grand Nudger - July 26, 2012 at 1:44 pm
RE: Right to die - by Minimalist - July 26, 2012 at 1:44 pm
RE: Right to die - by Annik - July 26, 2012 at 1:51 pm
RE: Right to die - by Angrboda - July 26, 2012 at 2:48 pm
RE: Right to die - by Reforged - July 26, 2012 at 7:22 pm

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