by dataport on Jul.18, 2009, under Uncategorized

A Gracious Death

Peace

One of my favorite bloggers, x4mr, (Sustainability, Equity, Development) has announced the death by suicide of British conductor Edward Downes and his wife. Downes, 85, and his terminally ill wife, 74, died at a clinic run by Dignitas, the Swiss organization that operates a specialist euthanasia service.

x4mr reports: “They were assisted in a comfortable room with beds close together allowing them to hold hands as they peacefully lost consciousness after taking a fatal dose of barbiturates under medical supervision.”

Such a gracious death should be available to us all when we find the burdens of age or sickness beyond our ability to endure.

More details of the Downes’ death here. Read about Dignitas here.

2 Comments for this entry

Bennni
July 19th, 2009 on 7:19 am
Would you like soilent green or soilent brown for dinner?

Those crazy people who said that abortion would lead to devalued life and euthenasia were dead on.

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Downtown Denizen
July 31st, 2009 on 3:18 pm
Seems so humane.

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