Gina Rydland

Euthanasia and the right to choose

Imagine, yourself or a loved one suffering from an incurable degenerative or disabling condition, terminal or non-terminal, requesting help to end life. A situation we all hope to never experience, but many of us will have to face. Personal references to belief systems, and life experience might guide us in the process leading to the final decision making of ending or prolonging life. What feels right for one person, might seem unacceptable to another.

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"Those who believe strongly that death must come without physician assistance are free to follow that creed, be they doctors or patients. They are not free, however, to force their views, their religious convictions, or their philosophies on all the other members of a democratic society, and to compel those whose values differs with theirs to die painful, protracted, and agonizing deaths." - Ninth Circuit Court judge Stephen Reinhardt.

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