Post by The Hatter on Apr 16, 2007 0:35:24 GMT -5
I know that the title is a bit misleading considering what this entire question/rant is about.
As many of you already know about me, I am very pro-death. I'm pro death penalty, pro choice, pro assisted suicide, pro regular suicide... I think you get the point. I'm also pro the government doing what the fuck they're supposed to be doing when they say that their doing it. I admit, that I'm used to the government lying to me, and if they suddenly got honest about everything that the structure of the American political machine would grind gears and explode. But you can't run a machine that dipped in the oil of falsehood. Yes you do need it to run smoothly, and I do believe that....but there is something as too much of a good thing. So here is my little rant about the government keeping their "eye on the ball" as it where.
Before 9/11, our government got involved in protecting us from all sorts of hazards. From the Budweiser frogs, to asbestos, to road rage, internet porn, and Bill Clinton's penis. And by watching the nightly news, you would think that the most dangerous thing to the general American populace was either shark attacks, or mold. But then came our 9/11 wake up call, "and everything..." please...
If "everything changed" after that, then why are we still fighting the old stupid wars on top of the real war? Why are decent citizens being jailed for smoking the wrong plant, easing the suffering of the terminally ill, or accepting money for sex, instead of the customary dinner and drinks?
Politicians love to talk about the wisdom of the people in their ass-kissy stump speeches, but apparently these wise people can even decide when they can die. Which is ironic because the two things that bring the most wisdom in life, are pain and age, and a lot of people who want to "end it" have plenty of both. How annoying it must be for these people, old and in pain, to have young, arrogant, law-makers, making life and death decisions for them.
The adult, right-minded patients requesting physician assisted suicide are not victims of their doctors...they are victims of their illnesses. The doctors are humanly facilitating the inevitable. Helping those people in agony to make their departure with dignity. Either by providing medication, or the old fashioned way, by showing them the bill. We would think about letting our pets or race horses to needlessly suffer though an inescapable death. Why don't we be just as humane to people? Isn't the choice to accept death with dignity a precious personal freedom, and a far cry better than sitting in a Crafmatic adjustable bed, with a tube in your nose, trying to eat a puzzle?
Which brings me to the Nimitzs. In early 2002, Chester W. Nimitz Jr, son of the famous WWII admiral and a highly decorated admiral in his own right. Killed himself in a double suicide with his wife Joan, in what I like to call, The Irrefutable Argument for Assisted Suicide. The Nimitzs had everything. A good life, honors and real honor, a loving marriage, good kids, everything that defines a happy life for most people....and then they didn't, because they got old. Robust into their eighties, at some point the body goes, it just does, it's not designed for forever. Life becomes a chore of just staying alive and that's no life at all. Maybe if the Nimitzs had lead dull, inactive lives like the weenies who write stupid laws, then maybe the transition to "drool-atude" would have been so hard to take. But they LIVED , so "just hanging on"...wasn't an option. They had lost their mobility, then their health, and then, most sadly...the remote.
They told the kids their plans, said the key good-byes, put all their affairs in absolutely apple pie order, and then shuffled off their mortal coil together, quietly, and with dignity. Having lead a good life they weren't afraid to die. Spiritual people never are, it's the religious that are more often afraid to "bring on the after-party", then they project that fear onto others like the Nimitzs, who would have been stopped if they had become so infirm that they could have done it themselves.
if I had one message to our government it would be, Lord Bush, and all your dukes and arch-dukes, get your noses out of our private affairs. Stop trying to police the private, adult decisions that we make in our Doctor's offices, our bedrooms, and section 13 row L of a Nelly concert. Read the Sun, the Enquirer, do something else to scratch that itch, get a life! Right now you have a big, big job to do...and frankly your not so good that you can do it distracted.
As many of you already know about me, I am very pro-death. I'm pro death penalty, pro choice, pro assisted suicide, pro regular suicide... I think you get the point. I'm also pro the government doing what the fuck they're supposed to be doing when they say that their doing it. I admit, that I'm used to the government lying to me, and if they suddenly got honest about everything that the structure of the American political machine would grind gears and explode. But you can't run a machine that dipped in the oil of falsehood. Yes you do need it to run smoothly, and I do believe that....but there is something as too much of a good thing. So here is my little rant about the government keeping their "eye on the ball" as it where.
Before 9/11, our government got involved in protecting us from all sorts of hazards. From the Budweiser frogs, to asbestos, to road rage, internet porn, and Bill Clinton's penis. And by watching the nightly news, you would think that the most dangerous thing to the general American populace was either shark attacks, or mold. But then came our 9/11 wake up call, "and everything..." please...
If "everything changed" after that, then why are we still fighting the old stupid wars on top of the real war? Why are decent citizens being jailed for smoking the wrong plant, easing the suffering of the terminally ill, or accepting money for sex, instead of the customary dinner and drinks?
Politicians love to talk about the wisdom of the people in their ass-kissy stump speeches, but apparently these wise people can even decide when they can die. Which is ironic because the two things that bring the most wisdom in life, are pain and age, and a lot of people who want to "end it" have plenty of both. How annoying it must be for these people, old and in pain, to have young, arrogant, law-makers, making life and death decisions for them.
The adult, right-minded patients requesting physician assisted suicide are not victims of their doctors...they are victims of their illnesses. The doctors are humanly facilitating the inevitable. Helping those people in agony to make their departure with dignity. Either by providing medication, or the old fashioned way, by showing them the bill. We would think about letting our pets or race horses to needlessly suffer though an inescapable death. Why don't we be just as humane to people? Isn't the choice to accept death with dignity a precious personal freedom, and a far cry better than sitting in a Crafmatic adjustable bed, with a tube in your nose, trying to eat a puzzle?
Which brings me to the Nimitzs. In early 2002, Chester W. Nimitz Jr, son of the famous WWII admiral and a highly decorated admiral in his own right. Killed himself in a double suicide with his wife Joan, in what I like to call, The Irrefutable Argument for Assisted Suicide. The Nimitzs had everything. A good life, honors and real honor, a loving marriage, good kids, everything that defines a happy life for most people....and then they didn't, because they got old. Robust into their eighties, at some point the body goes, it just does, it's not designed for forever. Life becomes a chore of just staying alive and that's no life at all. Maybe if the Nimitzs had lead dull, inactive lives like the weenies who write stupid laws, then maybe the transition to "drool-atude" would have been so hard to take. But they LIVED , so "just hanging on"...wasn't an option. They had lost their mobility, then their health, and then, most sadly...the remote.
They told the kids their plans, said the key good-byes, put all their affairs in absolutely apple pie order, and then shuffled off their mortal coil together, quietly, and with dignity. Having lead a good life they weren't afraid to die. Spiritual people never are, it's the religious that are more often afraid to "bring on the after-party", then they project that fear onto others like the Nimitzs, who would have been stopped if they had become so infirm that they could have done it themselves.
if I had one message to our government it would be, Lord Bush, and all your dukes and arch-dukes, get your noses out of our private affairs. Stop trying to police the private, adult decisions that we make in our Doctor's offices, our bedrooms, and section 13 row L of a Nelly concert. Read the Sun, the Enquirer, do something else to scratch that itch, get a life! Right now you have a big, big job to do...and frankly your not so good that you can do it distracted.
