Death With Dignity and why TPTB Promote Religion and Discourage Suicide

I am a retired Radio Talk Show Host. My former co-host was born severely disabled, no arms, hands attached directly to his shoulder, twisted, useless legs, confined to a wheelchair for his whole life, and some internal problems. Not only was he my co-host for 3 years of the many years I did the show, but he also was a college graduate,a Teacher, and lived on his own with a service dog.

My oldest daughter was born with mild spina bifida, and bilateral hip dysplasia. She is also Emotionally Handicapped, Learning Disabled, and ADHD, and has anxiety disorders. She will always have to have treatment and medication for her medical problems, and her developmental problems. She will always have to live with someone, or have very stringent supervision if we attempt to try to help her live on her own. I have made provisions with my youngest daughter, to supervise and handle her oldest sister's needs after I am gone. The youngest is quite competent. She is in her 2nd year of college, majoring in Accounting.

I had a friend with terminal cancer. When diagnosed, it had already spread. The doctors told him he could live 4 months if he took chemo and radiation. He refused, also, and was refused pain meds by the doctors. He used cannabis oil, and lived for 1 year after diagnoses, 3 times as long as the doctors told him he had left, if he took the chemo and radiation.

There is no reason for any dying person to be in pain, other than we won't let them have available, time tested, effective drugs.

I agree.

Pain control is very different if you are a poor dying person and a rich dying person.

There is no reason for a dying person to be denied whatever dose of painkiller they need whenever they feel they need it - they're dying anyway, let them be in comfort if it's what they choose.

But there are different types of pain, and some can't be touched by drugs.

That is a myth.

Even opoid resistant hyperalgesia pain can be controlled.


And poor people could easily obtain pain control if allowed free access to readily available herbs.

[link to www.foxnews.com]


The opium poppy, with its globe-shaped seed pod and beautiful flower petals, makes an impressive site, especially when there are thousands of flowering poppies all in one place. I have seen large fields of poppy in Morocco, and the sight is breathtaking. Woven deeply into various cultural histories, and critically valuable to the field of medicine, opium occupies a rare and important place in the human story.

TPTB don't promote religion. They cause drug shortages that drive people to despair

[link to www.nytimes.com]

Six countries — the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Britain and Australia — consume 79 percent of the world’s morphine, according to a 2005 estimate. The poor and middle-income countries where 80 percent of the world’s people live consumed only about 6 percent.

Some countries imported virtually none. “Even if the president gets cancer pain, he will get no analgesia,” said Willem Scholten, a World Health Organization official who studies the issue.

Not all pain is physical.

LSD works great for mood disorders...as do a wide variety of other banned substances.