Reply #5: Could be. [View All]

[RevCheesehead]

Where do you draw the line between euthanasia and DNR (do not resuscitate)? At what point does a patient (or family) make the decision that enough is enough?

My mother is slowly dying from a strange lung-disease. They do not know what's causing it, and there is no cure. She has an advanced medical directive, and her hospital records are DNR. When she checks in, they put a pink bracelet on her arm. She will not be intubated.

Are these "pro-life" people going to try to rob my mother of her right to die with dignity? What about cancer patients? What about those who refuse surgery?

I am so disturbed by the politicization of this issue - it frightens me.