Dignity and Compassion in Assisted Suicide
Written by Ann Pietrangelo on May 28th, 2009 in Conversations, Health, Linked Articles.
Simple human dignity and compassion. It’s hard to juxtapose that with end-of-life medical interventions that serve only to prolong pain and suffering, often against the wishes of the patient, while adding thousands of dollars to medical costs for no benefit.
Faced with such suffering and no hope of recovery, would you opt out if you could?
That’s exactly what one Washington woman did recently, becoming the first person to take advantage of the state’s Death with Dignity law. Diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer and certain death, she made a conscious, well thought out decision about her own death.
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Dignity and Compassion in Assisted Suicide
