Should we have the right to

[Kittyfuzz]

That really is a hard one to answer. With science and the human soul , no one ever really knows if the person can actually recover. I used to firmly believe that if someone documents it legally that they should be allowed to be put to rest if there is no hope of recovery and they are suffering. However, you don't want to be the person asking yourself if your loved one could have recovered, but you made the decision to end their life. it's very hard.

My sister passed away 2 years ago of ovarian cancer. She was only 34, and had three children from 7-18. It was hard for us, and especially for her children to watch her suffer the way she did. She had so much hope and faith that she would recover, thus giving us hope as well. In the end, that faith was shattered when we were told she had less than a week to live. During that week I asked myself those same questions. Isn't there something I can do to stop her suffering? The answer was yes. Though I can't ease her phsyical suffering, I can ease her mental suffering by us being there by her side while she left us. The last day of her life, I would have given anything to be able to give her a shot or something and stop her convulsions and pain. It was very hard to see that, and I know she wouldn't have wanted us to see that either. I just can't imagine how much she was truely suffering that day.

So my answer is yes. When it gets to that point, you should be able to call a Dr. who specializes in that to come help them pass. No one should ever have to suffer in the way that last stage terminal people do, No one.