Let Me Decide: The Right To Die

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feel pain or discomfort. The lecture brought back some bad memories. A few years ago I found it most difficult to hear about the invasive test and procedures performed on my grandmother when everyone involved knew she had stomach cancer and it had spread to her bladder. It seemed cruel to insist an 89-year-old woman, who was confused due to the pain and medication, have chemotherapy and radiation therapy. This went on for about three weeks, until some of the younger members of the family, including myself, insisted that the procedures were more of a torture than a cure. Maybe or words instilled guilt on my uncle, or maybe he could see she was suffering. After all the heroics stopped, she died peacefully a few days later. What I found most ironic was that six out of my grandmother’s eight children worked in health care. Had my grandmother made her wishes known before her illness, her last days would have been peaceful and comfortable, and she would have been able to die ...

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