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I didn't know that. I'd never heard of her before.
My father suffered for years with a chronic painful condition. He lived with either excruciating pain or the depression caused by heavy morphine use. In the end one solved the other, at least for him.
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_Josh_ wrote: Why not? It is the result of mental illness.
I'm not so sure...
While I understand that mental illness can lead to suicide, I don't believe for a second that all suicide is caused by mental illness. People in chronic physical pain or with fatal diseases may be quite justified in ending their lives. I suppose we could make the same argument for those in emotional pain. Who are we to judge? A person's life is theirs to do with what they choose... including ending it.
Taking other lives (human or animal) who did not choose to die before you "pull the pin" is the part that truly saddens me.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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The dog didn't deserve that. I won't pass judgement on how much pain - real or imagined - a person should suffer, and maybe suicide is justified sometimes (even though it tends to be a permanent solution to a temporary problem, or just a case of mistaken identity). But killing the dog you claim to love is just wrong; somebody else less f***ed up than you could have taken that pooch in, and allowed it a happy, full life. I can forgive her the suicide, but not the canicide.
Will Rogers never met me.
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