Comments on: Dying from Emphysema http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/03/08/dying-from-emphysema/ The Quit Smoking Blog Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:38:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Kirk VandenBerghe http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/03/08/dying-from-emphysema/comment-page-1/#comment-10994 Kirk VandenBerghe Sat, 27 Nov 2010 06:22:50 +0000 http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/03/08/dying-from-emphysema/#comment-10994 @AJ - Thanks for your thoughtful comments. No doubt, being deprived of air is a horrifying experience for anyone. I believe as a society we have to tread carefully in the area of assisted suicide. There's a fine line between a culture just getting rid of people who are ill because it's expensive and inconvenient to care for them versus what many believe is a fundamental right: to choose the time, place, and method of our departure from this plane of existence. In case you and other readers want to study this issue further, here's one link that can be a starting place > <a href="http://www.assistedsuicide.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Assisted Suicide</a> @AJ – Thanks for your thoughtful comments. No doubt, being deprived of air is a horrifying experience for anyone. I believe as a society we have to tread carefully in the area of assisted suicide. There’s a fine line between a culture just getting rid of people who are ill because it’s expensive and inconvenient to care for them versus what many believe is a fundamental right: to choose the time, place, and method of our departure from this plane of existence. In case you and other readers want to study this issue further, here’s one link that can be a starting place > Assisted Suicide

]]> By: AJ http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/03/08/dying-from-emphysema/comment-page-1/#comment-10991 AJ Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:50:56 +0000 http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/03/08/dying-from-emphysema/#comment-10991 My opinion and nothing else, It's painful to quit smoking but even more painful to be slowly dying of lack of air or any lung related condition. The feeling of breathlessness is perhaps the most painfully engraved memory in my mind and perhaps one real painful way to die. If this world cares more about keeping a person comfortable than just keeping them alive, we should research on painless ways to die for those that need it like the Dignitas. I don't know whether that's right or wrong but try explaining ethics to someone who'd rather die than live with a heavily compromised lung condition. Please for the sake of those suffering with lung related disorders imagine putting a plastic bag around your head and staying like that for a few minutes. If it doesn't bring you to your knees (metaphorically), then that's amazing. For the rest of us, please let us choose to die and help us die peacefully. My opinion and nothing else, It’s painful to quit smoking but even more painful to be slowly dying of lack of air or any lung related condition. The feeling of breathlessness is perhaps the most painfully engraved memory in my mind and perhaps one real painful way to die. If this world cares more about keeping a person comfortable than just keeping them alive, we should research on painless ways to die for those that need it like the Dignitas. I don’t know whether that’s right or wrong but try explaining ethics to someone who’d rather die than live with a heavily compromised lung condition. Please for the sake of those suffering with lung related disorders imagine putting a plastic bag around your head and staying like that for a few minutes. If it doesn’t bring you to your knees (metaphorically), then that’s amazing. For the rest of us, please let us choose to die and help us die peacefully.

]]> By: Siebenaler http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/03/08/dying-from-emphysema/comment-page-1/#comment-10268 Siebenaler Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:19:29 +0000 http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/03/08/dying-from-emphysema/#comment-10268 I think you formed some wonderful points on your site. I think you formed some wonderful points on your site.

]]> By: GareK http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/03/08/dying-from-emphysema/comment-page-1/#comment-528 GareK Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:31:39 +0000 http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/03/08/dying-from-emphysema/#comment-528 What a powerful story. Big Tobacco did its job far too well when it hired scientists to make sure they kept their customers "for life". Thanks for passing it along... ~GareK What a powerful story. Big Tobacco did its job far too well when it hired scientists to make sure they kept their customers “for life”. Thanks for passing it along…

~GareK

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