On suicide

[bunsen_h]

The good news is that the Canadian Supreme Court has decided - unanimously - that the current laws outright banning assisted suicide are unconstitutional.  Doctors should be able to assist suicide in specific situations

Comments

[suelet]

I know Rob....and probably Dave...hid behind their humour a lot. It was a coping mechanism.
I wish with all my heart that things had been less painful for them.
I am still unable to process this.

[bunsen_h]

Dave's family told us at his funeral that there was nothing we could have done; that it was our friendship with him that had kept him with us for so long. I still don't believe it, not really.

[suelet]

I have my last few conversations with Rob on my Skype window. It's not helping me in that regard in the least....I feel like I *should* have done something...because I *knew* he was in a dangerous place.

This is hard.

[bunsen_h]

My advice is to do a screen capture -- you'll probably want to hold on to that little piece of him, so to speak -- and then close the window. I still have some of the E-mail I'd exchanged with Dave, and some of his net postings. Somewhere. I need to transfer the contents of some old diskettes to a medium that my newer machines can read.

[dewline]

For what it's worth, I'm sorry.

[kattale]

*Hugs you very gently* I'm so sorry, my friend

[bunsen_h]

If it's early Thursday afternoon, it would be the same one. It's in the obituary.

[pameladean]

I am so sorry for your loss.

P.

[beable]

I'm sorry about your friend.