Years ago I read an article in the Detroit Free Press chronicling those who had sought out his assistance. Most did not have a terminal illness, in fact progressive Multiple Sclerosis often was the diagnosis.
At the time, we were stumbling around through not only just such a diagnosis but the daily realities. Patti was rapidly loosing her physical and cognitive abilities and facing a future of life long dependence on others.
“Right to die”, “assisted suicide”, “murder”, “right and wrong" and "quality of life” were words soon argued by lawyers, courts, advocates and media.
Lost in it all, was always the unimaginable choices made by those ‘real people’ facing a futureless future.
It’s a good day to ask ourselves individually and as a society, what have we done to make a dependent future any more civilized? Dignified? Caring?
Caregivingly Yours, Patrick Leer
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