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@LarsLarsonShow Sleep paralysis. Ever hear of it? What about a non-vegetative coma? Meaning you’re still conscious but cannot communicate as your body works on repairing itself.
These two states are synonymous to what terminal illness patients go through when being “made comfortable” as they wait to die.
The more morphine a terminally ill patient gets, the more their body shuts down. As a result, their mind becomes disconnected as if in a non-vegetative coma, they are conscious, they are mentally aware of who is with them, they can feel their touch, and hear their words. This is the TRUE suffering dying patients go through. The mental pain that no amount of morphine can quiet or quell.
Your position against assisted suicide for the terminally ill is grossly indifferent and cruel. Having heard you speak to many on it, constantly interrupting them before they can finish substantiating their point by retorting with non sequiturs (look what Canada does) that are irrelevant to the USA, is obnoxious and pompous. Not to mention unfair to your callers.
But hey, you do you and when the day comes someone close to you doesn’t want to wither away, body shutting down, brain getting disconnected from it and put into a non-vegetative like coma, drooling from their mouth, a tear sliding down their cheek, and the mental anguish they are realizing as they are still very much self-aware of their mortality that is fading away, unable to communicate how scared, hurt (mentally) and frozen they are (ie - like sleep paralysis) which frightens them 10 fold, know that all of this could have been avoided if they were just allowed to go out on their own terms with their wits about them (e.g. giving them the dignity they deserve).
Able to actually say goodbye once more, hug family, and then take a couple pills and lay down to go into a forever sleep. No physical rotting away pain needing dulled by unhealthy amounts of Morphine. No mental anguish and fear that they cannot communicate. Just a forever sleep. An endless dream with an actual smile on their face.
BUT NO! You don’t want that mercy for the terminally ill. You’d rather see them physically wither away, their head and face shrunk and grossly contorted from loss of weight. Their eyes sunken in, tear stains running down their cheeks. Unable to move. Unable to communicate. Just laying there in mental anguish until that final dose of Morphine kills them. Anyone who wants this for the terminally ill, denying them their dignity, is a horrible person in my personal opinion. Just horrible.
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