Comments on: Mercy Killing (and a head on a pole)

By: starbadger

starbadger — Sat, 14 May 2011 19:19:33 +0000

KJ – thank you for reminding me of the people I meet every day – doing their jobs @ 100%

By: kj

kj — Fri, 13 May 2011 01:38:57 +0000

@ Starbadger- I’m sorry but your example is inapplicable here. Your hypothetical pilot is performing the duties of his job, on the company time, which he is presumably paid for. He has sold his time and labour to the airline for an agreed upon duration of time, so for that period of time he effectively belongs to the company.

By: starbadger

starbadger — Thu, 12 May 2011 20:00:52 +0000

KJ – suppose an airline pilot decides to kill herself – wouldn’t it be selfish to do so while flying

JILARY – so people decide when it is right to put a dog down

do you think shannon or the doctors should decide when he be put down

in the real world of law if the doctors can decide more the patient can decide less – in either direction

By: Jilary

Jilary — Thu, 12 May 2011 02:08:12 +0000

I’ve been working at a vet’s office for 2 years now, and one of the most wonderful things I’ve been able to be a part of is helping an animal end it’s misery through euthanasia. It’s sad, and I admit I’ve cried a few times, but in the end I know it was the right thing, and I think it’s sad that we don’t extend that dignity to humans. Why is it “humane” to help end an animal’s suffering, but it’s ok to let a human suffer much worse?

By: kj

kj — Wed, 11 May 2011 05:00:47 +0000

This is what i had to say on it :
ts a question of who owns your body and by extension you. Do you own yourself, or do your friends, relaties, society at large?
If you own your body, yourself, then it’s your right to do with yourself as you damn well please, up to and including destroying it.
If the society own you, if you’s the property of your friends, family and other people, well then yes, they can force you to live against your will and make it criminal for you to destroy their property ( your body).

Think about it.

As for the ‘ suicide is selfish’ argument, how is it not selfish to force someone to live when they don’t want to?

By: starbadger

starbadger — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:21:26 +0000

If there is a plus to cancer it is that it is not contageous.

Contrast that with HIV and consider how small the world.

Remember the Stewardess who gave you shelter when you signed yourself out of the Clark Institute,

She gave up her job with A/C to be at the bedside of Patient One. That’s why you know her – she did spanish translation – a couple jobs with cognition sciences, small world eh!

By: starbadger

starbadger — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:56:47 +0000

“I’m doing what I can to improve the world,” she told 10News. “There’s a lot of heartache and difficulty here.”

Thank you for posting that – the more people who know and have the means to end themselves the better.

But when does mercy killing become mercy murder.

Frankly my own case leaps to mind. In Dec 1994 I was treated for late stage rectal cancer and given a year to live – maybe more years if i elected extreme chemo and radiation which of course i did.

kv and ash planted an oak tree to mark my return. There are lots of wonderful well taken 35 mm pix – i have a few here on the boat. Trouble is what returned from KGH is not what entered.

i have video interviews kv made with ash on the theme of celebration that “my father has cancer” something they would rise to but in a few years i would die

implicit was the notion that each “other” would be a hero – endure the consequences of the collateral damage my treatments caused plus my inattention such as always having to take a new towel to be certain it was clean – or my smell – as good as the appliances are they are imperfect – lucky for you by then you were starting BME –

it is not their fault i got cancer

i spoke with kv the other day on the matter of your background pain and one thing leading to another she said the “children were all on my side” that i leave you (2000)

She was referring to 18 June 2000 (Father’s Day) when they left having I presume lost all hope I would die of cancer cases

Nothing in my life brings me greater sadness that the recall a few days later of your brother Devon banning me from arguing my case at Waterloof –

To bring some generally and i hope without it reading as illusions of self-importance on my part – it was Mutiny on the Bounty.

That was going on 11 years ago but how do they – talk about family if they cannot confront the truth of what really happened – were i a grand child – i think i’d know “it ain’t necessarily so.”

THAT FOR SOME REASON MY PARENTS CANNOT TELL ME WHY OR WHAT HAPPENED IN 2000.

Back to your words SDL you could be HAWKING MOST OF US – NOT A CHANCE.

YOU ARE MY LUCKY ONE – BUT YOU KNOW THAT – STAY LUCKY.