Hi Wolf,

I hope you will see my brief post on your "taking a life" thread regarding the vision I had during meditation last night.

I have watched relatives suffer at the end of life.  Modern medicine can prolong suffering for no real purpose.  I strongly believe relieving discomfort to humans, even to the point of death, is not a sin and NOT taking a life.  In fact, I believe it can be ethical.  However, I believe the individual should have control over medical treatment and make these choices ahead of time if at all possible.  I do not consider such choices to be "suicide" or "taking a life."  I do not think people should recklessly go around "putting people out of their misery" but this is a serious issue in our day of modern medical technology and should be addressed in legally in a realistic way. 

love, blink

I am ready to go on this, and if a ballot proposition came up here
in California, I would vote for it. I think that Alzheimer's should
definitely be cause for release. I would like to be able to fill
out and sign a form, with witnesses, that would provide me an exit,
provided by the state, when a certain point is reached.
You would have to have a number of opinions on the diagnosis, but
after that, the procedure should be set in motion. The patient
should be able to fully authorize it while still lucid.

But I would think that this would not pass until there was a shift
in belief. But I think a lot of even conventional Christians would
go for it.

I am certainly not looking forward to consuming the family money in
a hospital. Our houses are paid for, and I don't want any new
mortgages on my behalf! When my body gives out, I want OUT! I am
very mindful of completing what I must before the body begins to
go. I want to leave my house to my people, financially intact. The
filthy disgusting property tax is already bad enough.

I have a friend who is being stressed to death by two Alzheimer's parents. I definitely want to avoid doing this to my wife!

There seems to me to be a Big Difference between deciding that "Joe is inferior" or "Joe is defective" and then imposing a rapid termination, a compared to ending a useless existence in which I am doing nothing but consuming those whom I love. Not only is this not suicide, in the sense of "Stop the world, I want off," but it's a forward looking choice, "This body and mind have worn out, and I'd like to get new ones." 

On the other hand, there have been some politicians that we might have usefully euthanized, but that's not my department.

part of the problem is that health has turned into big business but by and large it's another problem called emotional attachment to the one who is leaving, or trying to leave. doctors took an oath to save lives, so they just do what they think it is they should do, and behind closed doors they will ask the family members what they want to do, hoping they don't get sued in the process of making the wrong decision prematurely by pulling the plug. people have woken up from comas after years and years, so u can see the delimmia.
add to the problem that the family may not even believe that their loved one does continue on in another form.
I have interesting vision of futuristic death houses for the terminally ill, only for those of sound mind who choose to terminate themselves with much counsel, it will all be perfectly legal and have nothing to do with making a moral choice for another but will be an enlightened age where people do not have fear around death which is only rebirth. to view people walking into these house will act only to make life all the more a thing to celebrate and cause a major shift in consciousness throughout the world as people find out what's important here and what's not.
love, alysia