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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1266

If we can’t laugh, what sanity is there?

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The something large we can give away is conversation: within the family, between patient and physician, between client and lawyer. Conversation informs, conversation reshapes, conversation creates.

:- Doug.

As to dying our own deaths consider how we deny each other our own deaths by chemotherapy continued too long, looking for a cure when healing is what we really want, not giving comfort measures, dying in a violent and noisy and distinctly unrestful environment.

:- Doug.

It is the right thing to do, to start this conversation. Give away something big and important.

:- Doug.

Touch the strings of my genius: I will sing.

:- Doug.

Here is the ethical question I see: Ought we lawyers and doctors, parents and children to tell people of their right to their own death? Ought we with them to open the conversation about their choices, to help them choose?

:- Doug.