I know it's been about a week or so since I read this article, but I'm a bit behind the times on my blogging lately as I'm simply too swamped with work.
The basic gist of the article is this: here is an old couple who have lived their lives. They are in their late years, and both have degenerative conditions. Rather than spend the last few years of their lives in agonizing misery, wasting away while their families watch on in despair, not to mention each other, they decided to go to a clinic and have some doctors put them to sleep.
The moral issue is something I'm undecided on. I can totally agree with them in their situation, but where do you draw the line at who should or shouldn't be allowed to have a doctor help them bring their life to an end? Who gets to be the judge of when a person should or shouldn't have the right to determine their own way off this rock? I can understand if the person is in good health but simply has a death wish for whatever emo reason, but what about the truly suffering people, like this elderly couple, who have already lived their lives to the fullest extent and rather than wither away in agony they decide to make a peaceful end, together.
Still not quite sure how I feel about this. It's definitely a morally questionable issue, but one on which I can see both sides of the fence.
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