The compassionate society that forces a 100 year old to starve herself to death

The Herald reports:

“When life is a misery, you give your patients something,” my 100-year-old mother, Aileen Breslin, told me in December, as she lay in her hospital bed, suffering intolerable physical and mental pain.

“Why can't you do the same for me?” She was absolutely right. When a life is no longer worth living, bring that life to a painless end. I'm legally permitted to do because I'm a veterinarian – and the life I am ending is that of anything other than a human.

But now, as of last week, if you live in Canada, as my mother did, and thanks to the Canadian Supreme Court's resounding 9-0 judgment, people in her circumstances will be allowed to ask their physicians to help end their misery too. I can't help wondering if we should have the same right elsewhere. …

Mum was telling me she had decided to die. time, she was only just ahead of her time. Thanks to that Canadian Supreme Court ruling, people in her circumstances will now be able to do so, painlessly, of their own free will, simply by asking for and taking pills, without putting themselves or their families through a needlessly protracted and inevitably uncomfortable end of life.

But Mum did not have that luxury. Her only option was to refuse food.

I get angry when I read about people who go through such suffering because our laws do not allow them to have an assisted , when they are not capable of ending their own lives.  When one is in agony, you should be able to choose to end your life.

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