Re: Powerful Testimony of Louise Schaefer on AB 374, the California Compassionate Choices Act

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And now she wants to be able to commit suicide legally because of her ALS?

the thing that scares me about assisted suicide is that people may do it so

their families won't be impoverished, lose their homes, etc. by the cost of

their care,

not because they really are in so much pain they don't want to go on living.

The two are very different things.

A lot of people would not be so distressed if there was some way for them to

be both ill and live the way they did before, some kind of affordable

management of

their chronic illnesses.

Ideally they would not lose their home, because once someone loses an

affordable home, often where they have been living for a long time, often

they have noplace else to go, and no hope of finding one, shy of a miracle.

On 30 Mar 2007 05:29:20 -0700, Darlene <darlenesb2000@...> wrote:

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> Darlene (darlenesb2000@... <darlenesb2000%40>) has sent you

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> Powerful Testimony of Louise Schaefer on AB 374, the California

> Compassionate Choices Act

> http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/03/powerful_testim.html

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> Personal Message:

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> RE: I believe the ALS set in the day I passed out at work in 2002, after

> being exposed to toxic mold for an extended period of time.

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