re: Canada set to pass 100,000 assisted suicides

There is nothing about physician assisted suicide which is anyone's business other than the individual involved, their family and their healthcare provider. Everyone else should sit down and shut the frick up...its none of our business.

My dad is 86 years old and has not eaten or drank anything orally in a year. He has gone from 230 pounds and pretty physically active to 135 pounds and almost bed ridden. Its costing Medicare - you and me and everyone in the US who earns a salary - right at $15K a month for him to exist in the condition he is in. Other than the loss of lean muscle which has rendered him almost bedridden the diet he is on has his bloodwork and associated "physical" markers better than they have been in years. He is liable to live 20 or more years like this. He is pretty satisfied - he has always been an amazing person to me but his ability to cope with not eating...at 230 pounds its obvious eating was a major part of his quality of life...for over a year and not being crazier than a shite house is a testament to the human spirit. It is not typical...his health care providers tell us every chance they get they have never had a patient who was as stoic about being in a similar condition. I say all of that to say this....if he made the decision to end his life on his own terms I would be devastated but I would support him because, at the end of the day, it is HIS life, not mine or anyone else's....and it is no one's business. Forcing someone to live in that or even worse condition to satisfy some moral leaning or selfishness in not wanting to lose them is the cruelest thing one person could do to another. It is a decision which is one that an individual should be allowed to make and anyone who doesn't like it can deal with THEIR shortcomings and mind their own damned business.

Yes you can kill yourself because you are depressed.
No, you may not smoke cigarettes.

Progressive utopia.