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Originally Posted by Sam
My wife would say, "We treat Fido better than we treat Grandma."
She firmly believes that in conditions where there is no possibility of a medical cure a person who wishes to terminate his/her life should be honored.
I don't know if I feel that strongly about it or not. I have an incurable lung condition (incurable by human and medical standards). The only cure would be a lung transplant but I am in my seventies and, in my opinion, it would be morally wrong for me to receive new lungs when there are others younger than I who need them. I am mobile. I am not on oxygen. I get winded very easily and cannot walk far or exert myself so my condition is not intolerable. And, as I have told my pulmonologist, we are praying and I expect the dead areas of my lungs to be regenerated.
Both my wife and I have living wills and we both have given full power of attorney to each other.
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A positive note on a post that sounds so gloomy. Yesterday my pulmonologist (not sure how to spell that) told me that my lungs are operating at 70 percent capacity compared to 50 percent capacity in January of this year. God is good.
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