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Sunday 24/11/07 One of my daily rituals, during my week in work is to look at You Tube ( during my unpaid lunch hour). For some reason, I keyed in Dr.Kevorkian, the so called Dr.Death. I hadn't heard any information about him in so long. A google search revealed he had been imprisoned until June of this year, for his help in assisted suicide. On You Tube there is a very interesting segement about him. There is a short video of the brother of a man who Dr.Kevorkian helped end his life. The brother was very articulate and stated that they were lucky enough to live in the same county as Dr. Kevorkian, but still had to sneak him in the house in the middle of the night, and the family members had to leave the room while the injection was being administered for fear of they themselves going to jail. He stated that his brother never wanted to be the posterboy for euthanasia, but that in his view, Dr.Kevorkian did his brother a great service, and should never have spent a night in jail, like a common criminal. This is a topic that I think about more and more. It is not the case that someone is just having a bad day and wants an easy way out, but people with serious life affecting issues, should be able to control the manner in which they pass on, rather than being forced to live on in their own squalor. Its terrible to think , that a rational capable person does not have the legal right to determine what happens to them, even if they have been in a near fatal accident. Legally even if they had no desire to be kept alive at any cost, thier wishes are not even listened to. I said this to somebody, who told me that they had told their wife that in the event of an accident, they do not want to be kept artifically alive. But as I said to him, that legally your views are totally disregarded and irrelevant,even if you had the most detailed and conscise living will made beforehand. For me it all gets back to the core question of asking "who's life is it anyway?" I
feel I should soften the mood here, its just that this issue stood
out for me this week. Work is very quiet and I must say I am not
a fan of this time of the year. After nearly a year of searching,
I have finally found my Honeybush tea, thanks to the internet and
the Dragonfly
company in England. There is a South Africian shop on Parnell
Street in Dublin and the owner had been trying to get it, but unfortunately,
he could only get me a Rooibos version of Honeybush tea. But now
I have ten boxes which will keep me going for a while, and it tastes
as good as I remembered. It certainly was an awful lot cheaper than
the alternative of getting Sabine in South Africa to post them to
me. ( God I am easily amused ! )
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