I'm all about, let people do whatever they want to do. Nowadays, you can't fart without having permission to do so. A women wants an abortion, it's her choice. An old man with late stage cancer wants to choose when/how to die, it's his choice. A gay man wants to marry his long time lover, it's his choice. I don't understand people and that's probably why I'm getting meaner as I get older, people just piss me off all the time trying to dictate someone's life.
Don't get me started me lazy nurses and asshole doctors in hospitals and nursing homes. Those people need a serious awakening. My mother in law has been between hospitals and nursing homes since July. She's pretty much gone but because she's a tough woman, she's hanging on. Nowadays, she just opens her eyes, staring at the ceiling, barely reacting to anything. She has gangrene on a foot which is now solidified, it looks like a tree. She has probably 20 different infections, and so on. Because of the nurses not doing their job, my ex had to quit his job in order to take care of her. I'm personally paying a nurse to be with her 12 hours every night. Which leaves me, on top of that, with having to take care of all the bills/mortgage on my own, not mentioning my personal loans. All that because nurses just don't care. Back in July, My mother in law stayed the whole day bathing in her own shit because the nurses didn't change her diapers. Yes we have to change her diaper every 2 hours, which resulted of her getting an infection down there which hasn't fully healed in 8 fucking months. Oh did I mention she has alzheimer too and clots in her blood up the wazoo that she's had 5 strokes in 10 months. I love her so much that it pains me to see her like that, but I'll do anything for anybody I love, so I'll do whatever I can for her, no regrets whatsoever.
Why Am I telling this story here, because I'm fucking pissed off. People just don't care anymore. We're living in a time where everybody just bitch and bitch and bitch. There is less and less caring. If nurses would do their jobs, a lot of problems could be avoided, and people could live the rest of their life with less suffering. So yeah, I'm grateful that there are doctors like Kevorkian that can help people to die in peace.
Now who can make the choice? The sick person himself or can someone else make the choice? Quite frankly, I don't know what the law says about assisted suicide. If a sick person makes the choice, to me it's assisted suicide, but if someone else makes the choice, then I feel like it's assisted murder. Where is the line? I'm not sure.
Personally, we could never make the choice for her. But we just wished the nurses/doctors would have more compassion which would result in less people wanting to use the service of a dr Kevorkian. Just my 2 cents.
