Beware the answer to your question.Bill Colby's article, "Let's let's Contraction of let us. Talk about Dying." (May/June 2009) showed once again that issues of death and dying in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. have been ignored and sidelined far too long. While I appreciate that he calls on society to face these issues and openly talk about them, it seems to me that unless we are first able to answer some of the questions he poses (like, "Why do we live our lives?"), it's highly unlikely that any progress will be made with respect to physician-assisted suicide Noun 1. physician-assisted suicide - assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician assisted suicide - suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible and euthanasia euthanasia (y  'thənā`zhə), either painlessly putting to death or failing to prevent death from natural causes in cases of terminal illness or irreversible coma. . But what if we were to answer
those questions as a society and we concluded that "our lives"
are not actually ours to do with as we choose but are given as a gift? I
suppose the calls for open talks would have to continue then. As is so
often the case, I fear that open discussion will eventually give in to
political and ideological pressure.
Brandt Klawitter St. Louis, MO |
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