Should you define your own death?
By Tom Heneghan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robert Veatch weighs his words carefully when he talks about how people pass away. Most simply die. Some “become dead”. Others are “made dead”.
Tom Heneghan’s article on the morals and ethics of when to let a terminally ill patient die was very well written. My father just died of Alzheimer’s at the age of 62, and every member of my family struggled with that unnatural decision. We watched him slowly lose brain function until he ultimately forgot how to swallow and then breathe. Hollywood generally paints a very false view of death as people just “pass away.” Death is unfortunately a very real and too often a very drawn out process.
Thank you for writing about a problem too much of America doesn’t think about until it is too late.
Reif B.
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