Deborah Coddington: Is euthanasia for the living or the dying? - Health - NZ Herald News: It's all very well signing up to voluntary euthanasia, but who's going to administer all these lethal injections? Who's going to get them to sip the glass of water so they can swallow their "peaceful pills" so they can "quietly slip away." That's the question nobody wants to address.
. . . [A]s I watched [my mother breathe her last], I saw that like birth, death is hard work. . . . Cheyne-Stokes breathing, what the dying do near the end, is what my mother did for two days and a night. But she wasn't in pain, she was just dying. And even though she was deeply unconscious, I have no doubt she knew we were there. When it was time, she just stopped breathing, much like when a baby is born and starts breathing. Mum peacefully took a couple of last breaths. This was death with dignity.
More than once we compared the waiting to sitting around dozing and waiting for a baby to be born. And why shouldn't it be? But now we want to sanitise death. Is this really for the person dying, or is it in truth for those still living? We want designer deaths, to go with designer births
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