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2. I'm glad everyone agreed in this case. But we need laws so that

Reply to Tab (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 07:23 AM

Mar 2013

the outcome is not based on compassion and the agreement of prosecutors. It's easy to imagine situations in which prosecutors would be avid for a different outcome.

We need laws to allow people's family and friends to help them die with dignity when the individual decides it is time.

Thanks for posting this story, Tab.

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So it wouldn't make a mess. Apparently he was in the area of the kitchen. nt Honeycombe8 Mar 2013 #5

I'm glad everyone agreed in this case. But we need laws so that enough Mar 2013 #2

It is a beautiful love story, right up to the very end .... "And I just let it go." I'm tearing up secondwind Mar 2013 #3

We have beaten so many killers GeoWilliam750 Mar 2013 #4

So sad that the end is this way. Maybe they'll meet again later. Honeycombe8 Mar 2013 #6

I cannot believe we force people like George Sanders to do this. It's past time for euthanasia. Hoyt Mar 2013 #7