Letter: About euthanasia

Published: 01-12-2025 4:00 PM

Some recent news about there being legislation being considered that is seen as “euthanasia, assisted suicide” is why I write. I don’t believe that the words euthanasia and suicide belong in the same sentence! To go to the top of the Empire State Building and jump off is suicide. To lay in bed and have a medical person apply the right medicine to end your suffering, however described, is not suicide, it is euthanasia.

Euthanasia is available in both Vermont and Maine when you have been diagnosed with less than six months to live. I am presently fighting two cancers, bladder and lung, and as the layperson, I believe that I might have a third in my throat but the medical folks don’t agree. My buttons are certainly being pushed. If and when I decide that enough is enough and I decide I want out, it is not going to be by putting a 12 gauge shotgun in my mouth, I assure you. I’m going to want you to know that it is because you did not approve of a euthanasia plan here in New Hampshire.

Denis J. O’Connell

Concord

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