Just For The Record....
Fortunately, I'm still in great health. However, should I somehow wind up bedridden, comatose, vegatitive, or dying of some horrible disease, let this be my public declaration of my feelings and intentions:
1. Tell Randall Terry to stay the hell away from me.
2. Tell the President, the Governor, the courts, my senators and representatives, various "pro-life" organizations, representatives of all religions, and any other self-appointed guardians of public morality that I'm perfectly comfortable with the fact that death is an inevitability. Moreover, if I can't have the quality of life I desire (i.e. a normal, healthy, intellectually stimulating existence), I really don't want to hang around.
3. If my only option is starvation/dehydration, so be it. Quite honestly, if my brain is cooked and I'm a vegetable anyway, I doubt I'll care. However, I think this is the wimp's way out. I want to be shown the same dignity I showed my beloved old dog when he got old: put me to sleep. Just fill the needle with something quick and lethal, and put me to sleep. Then cremate my remains, put them in a gold urn with a black bow tie around the top, set me on a bar somewhere, and invite my friends to have a last drink with me.
Finally, if anyone says anything about "erring on the side of life", you have my permission to slap them hard. All they're really saying is "I will force my religious convictions upon others and happily use government guns to do so." Those who criticize science and reason as being unable to provide sufficient evidence to convince them of various things (evolution, the right to die, etc.) should remember one thing: no religion on the planet has the slightest bit of objective, verifiable, replicable evidence that their beliefs are real. I'll happily leave them alone to live by their beliefs -- and all I ask of them is that they return the favor.
1. Tell Randall Terry to stay the hell away from me.
2. Tell the President, the Governor, the courts, my senators and representatives, various "pro-life" organizations, representatives of all religions, and any other self-appointed guardians of public morality that I'm perfectly comfortable with the fact that death is an inevitability. Moreover, if I can't have the quality of life I desire (i.e. a normal, healthy, intellectually stimulating existence), I really don't want to hang around.
3. If my only option is starvation/dehydration, so be it. Quite honestly, if my brain is cooked and I'm a vegetable anyway, I doubt I'll care. However, I think this is the wimp's way out. I want to be shown the same dignity I showed my beloved old dog when he got old: put me to sleep. Just fill the needle with something quick and lethal, and put me to sleep. Then cremate my remains, put them in a gold urn with a black bow tie around the top, set me on a bar somewhere, and invite my friends to have a last drink with me.
Finally, if anyone says anything about "erring on the side of life", you have my permission to slap them hard. All they're really saying is "I will force my religious convictions upon others and happily use government guns to do so." Those who criticize science and reason as being unable to provide sufficient evidence to convince them of various things (evolution, the right to die, etc.) should remember one thing: no religion on the planet has the slightest bit of objective, verifiable, replicable evidence that their beliefs are real. I'll happily leave them alone to live by their beliefs -- and all I ask of them is that they return the favor.
posted by DrJDG @ 22:36
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