A personal essay on end-of-life sovereignty
Their Choice: Our Responsibility is not an argument about euthanasia, assisted suicide, or medical economics. It is about a moment that arrives without warning—the moment when
a loved one can no longer speak, and someone else must decide.
This is not a discussion about right to life, or the dollars and sense of medical intervention. This is about a choice, a decision that sometimes must be made at the time when
thoughtful consideration is a luxury you don't have.
THEN
You are sitting in a waiting room outside of an operating room and the love of your life is inside having surgery. After an interminable wait the doctor comes out and tells you
everything went great and your love will be out in a few minutes and you can see her then. And he turns and walks back into the operating room and you let out a sigh of relief
and a deep breath you didn't realize you were holding.
And three minutes later he comes racing out and says,
"You have to let us intibate her right now or she will die!"
You have until you turn this page to give him an answer....
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