http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/03/20/france.tumor/index.html#soundoff
eight years before she died she was diagnose with esthesioneuroblastoma, a rare and incurable form of cancer that caused her to developing tumors in her nasal passages and sinuses that distorted her face and caused her nose and eyes to bulge.
she was given drugs to help alleviate the pain, but told her doctors time and time again that the drugs did nothing to relieve the excruciating pain. "It is not only the face. Some of my bones are eaten into. I don’t have any more upper and lower jaws," she said in an interview last month, according to an Associated Press translation.
The poor woman decided she wanted to die and end her suffering. But French law states that assisted suicide is illegal. The law permits only passive euthanasia such as removing feeding and hydration tubes when a person is in a coma, or inducing a coma and then removing the tubes.
Her lawyer had tried to convince a French court that it was "barbaric" to put her through the ordeal of dying slowly in an artificial coma, something that could take up to two weeks while her three children looked on in anguish.
The French court ruled against euthanasia and turned down the appear. When she wrote to the French president, he told her to seek a second opinion. A whole lot of talk, circular logic, and no action.
This women deserved to put out of her misery like her and her family wanted. Put yourself in her position, would you want to continue living with such extreme excruciating pain everyday, knowing that eventually you will die... slowly and painfully. But here is the problem... suicide is a sin. A large Christian uprising came from this women’s story, with sympathy for her disease, but a point of view that she should not be allowed to receive assisted suicide. it should have been her choose, not the church or government it's her life and her suffering, not theres.
in America, euthanasia is illegal as well. Abortion is legal. Euthanasia is illegal. This woman could legally abort a fetus, killing an unborn baby but she is not allowed to make the decision whether or not to end her own suffering. Everyday, dogs, cats, horses, and more animals are put to death to put them out of their misery. So euthanasia is legal for animals but not for humans.
only one state in America has legalized euthanasia and that state is Oregon, and 4 states don't have any specific laws regarding assisted suicide. 7 states prohibit euthanasia under common law, and 38 states have specific laws prohibiting euthanasia. I believe that euthanasia should be legal, but only under ceritian sacristans like an incurable deadly disease, or if the person is an a coma, etc...
I DON'T BELIEVE that euthanasia should be legal for healthy people that are depressed and want to end there lives, please do not get that mixed up with what this blog is about.
if you want to see what laws your state has on euthanasia click here.
http://www.euthanasiaprocon.org/statelaws.htm
