about euthanasia, and your letter to the group.

[Guest guest]

Well, this is the problem: "What is the point if the person himself cannot breath? What do you expect him to do? And why are you burdening the whole nation with this person when there are many people dying on the streets, starving?Thirty million people in America are on the street without shelter, without food, without clothes, and thousands of people are taking up hospitals beds, doctors, nurses- their work,

their lab our, medicines. Everybody knows they will die sooner or later, but as long as you can you should keep them alive. They want to die." You make a valid point. In fact you are able to have people see a more spiritual way of looking at it through the aspects you focus on. It is however, a tad naive. Life is a great and powerful experience. Consciousness is everything. To consciously approach the moment you realize you are not sure what is happening, or that it feels like "curtains-down time's-up" it not easy. It can be very very

scary. Have you yourself ever experienced it? ... then calm down a little, because I think you do have something worthwhile to say about it. I did. I almost drowned once in the ocean, and believe me, you never want or appreciate life more than when you see it's leaving you. Agreed others have had the opposite experience. However, a lot still needs to be learned about it. I also feel there is a state in which you arrive at peace with your parting. We see it in many old folks, and it doesn't necessarily have to do with being tired, or feeling that you had enough. We ought to care a WHOLE LOT MORE about what is going on in the mind when we are impotent to just get up and walk away. A lot of love is needed, and still all the love in the world may not do justice to how much a person may love life, or

feel they still want to know and have more of the love they haven't had but know they could still. How can anyone know that for someone else?? You see? Living is purposeful, and the spiritual message perhaps that we ought to learn to manifest in this subject is more about life than death itself. If we look at all the things we come to life to do; create, have children, love, invent, sexuality, experience experience experience, heal and learn to heal, the mind and body, specially from health problems we could've avoided we can appreciate that fulfillment and satisfaction with everything that life can be is a part of the peace which allows us to let go at the end. I agree that there should be a sensibleness and awareness of how cruel it is to force someone to continue breathing in their old age when perhaps the body was ready to pass many months before. It's hideous. My mother died during her forth operation to remove intestinal bleeding, and no one was

around at the moment to speak for her. Both her children where out of the country. Obviously the hospital had no sensibility for the comfort of her soul. I often cry thinking, wondering if in the silence of her being drugged out of her mind she felt scared and abandoned. That's our hospitals for you. So yes, I'm with you but... Let's ask the ones who no a little bit about this subject to teach us how to evolve it, the ones that are nearing that threshold, and not try to plan other peoples death.