http://www.thecheckoutline.org/blog/ending-your-own-life-debbie-purdy/ Advice for Dying and Death - When Sympathy Isnt Enough Tue, 22 May 2012 07:33:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.thecheckoutline.org/blog/ending-your-own-life-debbie-purdy/comment-page-1/#comment-2472 Mel Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:22:03 +0000 http://www.thecheckoutline.org/?p=503#comment-2472 In most medical situations, it takes a while to become too incapacitated to swallow a bunch of pills. Modern prognoses can usually give a ballpark estimate of expected deterioration. People who want to end their lives should do it themselves and soon before it is too late, rather than waiting around and expecting someone else to do the dirty work for them and then have to live with it. In most medical situations, it takes a while to become too incapacitated to swallow a bunch of pills. Modern prognoses can usually give a ballpark estimate of expected deterioration. People who want to end their lives should do it themselves and soon before it is too late, rather than waiting around and expecting someone else to do the dirty work for them and then have to live with it.

]]> http://www.thecheckoutline.org/blog/ending-your-own-life-debbie-purdy/comment-page-1/#comment-2471 Jean in Ohio Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:11:39 +0000 http://www.thecheckoutline.org/?p=503#comment-2471 Why stop the debate at helping sick people out of their misery? There are people with mental and social problems who have hard lives. Others who can't earn a living in these times. And ugly ones. And stupid ones. All sorts of unhappy people. While that may not be your direct intention, Ms Bachrach, you are opening up your website to a debate about the pros and cons of MURDER. The mind boggles. Why stop the debate at helping sick people out of their misery? There are people with mental and social problems who have hard lives. Others who can’t earn a living in these times. And ugly ones. And stupid ones. All sorts of unhappy people. While that may not be your direct intention, Ms Bachrach, you are opening up your website to a debate about the pros and cons of MURDER. The mind boggles.

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