(04-06-2018, 06:38 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(04-01-2018, 01:01 AM)HandsomeRob86 Wrote: 100% agree, its not like there aren't any guns in the US.

As someone who's lost a family member to a Beretta against the right temple, there is nothing peaceful or dignified about going out that way. If an adult who is terminally ill wishes to die rather than deal with two years of constant pain and massive medical bills for treatments designed to buy them another month here, another couple weeks there, then they should have the option of a peaceful death available to them. It's never going to be something allowed at the federal level, because big pharma will go thousands of miles out of their way to make sure they keeping getting $10,000 per month from someone who's going to die in three painful months anyway.

(04-01-2018, 08:45 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: It's a short step from "I want to die with dignity" to "We want grandma to die with dignity."

No, it's really not. This is not Monty Python. The body collector is not going to club Grandpa on the head.

Lol, you couldn't be more wrong. How long do you think, in this era of corporate and government-funded healthcare, it will take the bill payers to figure out that you can bend the cost curve significantly downward if you only offer the Death Pills once a terminal diagnosis is given? 

UniteBluCigMana Rep: "Sorry, that treatment protocol is no longer on the Medicare benefits schedule and we follow federal medical policy. You want to appeal? Ok, so why should we spend $10,000 per treatment to keep you alive for an additional few years?  Authorization denied, but we'll cover the cost of your Nembutal, that only sets us back thirty bucks. Oh, you wanna live? Ok, but it's all out of pocket for you. Good luck finding the doctors, facilities, and drugs you need."

For someone who doesn't trust corporations or the government you sure are eager to give them the power to kill you.

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