tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248478318892426116.post4828696404715219306..comments2024-02-20T17:48:55.571-05:00Comments on Freedom Through Truth: Euthanasia bill should be killedMichael Brandonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557797099650457723noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248478318892426116.post-30200964155632138292009-11-16T11:19:30.259-05:002009-11-16T11:19:30.259-05:00Thanks for your comments Joshua.
Bishop Henry wro...Thanks for your comments Joshua.<br /><br />Bishop Henry wrote wisdom. Your family put it into terms we can all see and understand.Michael Brandonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17557797099650457723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248478318892426116.post-1166147284270785792009-11-16T06:56:57.582-05:002009-11-16T06:56:57.582-05:00This is a beautifully written piece. Bishop Henry ...This is a beautifully written piece. Bishop Henry proves his intellectual mettle here BIG TIME! His points about palliative care are ones I've been putting forward for years. Our society's paranoia about opiates sets the stage for facvouring killing people over the humane/humanitarian use of opiates for the chrinically ill and dying. This makes no sense.<br /><br />I remember my godmother many years ago suffering excruciating pain as she lay dying of cancer at age 33. My dad and my uncle simply couldn't take it and begged the doctors to give her something stronger. "Oh no!" came the response. "Such drugs are very addictive. You don't want your beloved wife/sister to become addicted to drugs, do you?." The two men were flummoxed.<br /><br />The (extended) family got together and my aunt was soon in relative comfort on illegally purchased pharmaceutical heroin from Britain. Becasue of that, her two adolescent daughters had a 14-month opportunity to get to know their mother a little bit before she passed away. During that time, my beloved aunt never once mentioned that she was bothered by the fact that heroin was taking her pain away.<br /><br />Bishop Henry's expose shows the inhumanity that such secular social values - values which can morph and change over time - can produce when those values are misapplied or introduced into the wrong context.Joshua S.noreply@blogger.com