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Title: Euthanasia
Words: 738
In my career as a nurse, I have spent a great deal of time with the terminally ill. When you know that you have a debilitating disease and your prognosis is poor, you ponder the thought of death. Do I want to suffer? Do I want to have my family drained emotionally and financially? Is this going to be painful? How can I be dependent on someone else to maintain by bodily functions? When faced with these questions, we become frightened. What if our disease causes us to lose all quality of life? Should we have the option to end our suffering by choosing a humane way of ending our life? One of my dogs became very ill, and I took him to the vet. The vet ran tests and found that Rocky had a cancerous tumor. The prognosis: poor. The vet told us what to expect in the next few months. He gave us the ...
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