Choosing To Die
Gretchen Heuring 02.20.09
Most of us don't think about the process or dying. We don't stop to consider why someone might want to die. We are horrified by the high suicide rate among young people and we offer comfort for those grieving the loss of people who chose to die.
When I first began to read about physician-assisted death, I could not focus on the idea of it. Beds are comfortable, I thought. Why can't people just lie there until they fade away? Of course I had never been around anyone who was really sick or in terrible pain. I didn't understand what a frail person is. I think I might have associated frailty with not enough exercise.
The people of the state of Washington voted for physician-assisted death in November of 2008.
