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Betty Kelly
Location: Alexandria, VA
Date Joined: January 20, 2009
Votes: 28
Questions: 2
Questions Answered: 2
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What steps will you take this year to empower people at the end of their lives and allow them a choice in the time and manner of their death? Please consider that my moral values are not yours and providing a law that allows a choice, does not force people to make that choice.
Asked by: Betty Kelly from Alexandria, VA. Received 19 Votes.
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Currently everybody has a choice how to die. We should be aware as a society that an inordinate amount of society's resources goes into keeping people alive in the last six months of life. Now that is not necessarily a bad thing, but it is a choice. Most other countries don’t keep them alive if they have no quality of life, if they are simply on life support systems. Frankly, if we are going to reduce the cost of health care, so that we can provide it for everyone these may be some of the things we have to consider as a society.
Answered on Jun 23rd, 2009 More
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After watching people die during my nursing career, I want the right to choose how I will die. Why can't you make assisted suicide legal? Giving people a choice, does not force a person to go against their own religious beliefs, so please take that into consideration when you make a choice for me.
Asked by: Betty Kelly from Alexandria, VA. Received 9 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA)
Well it depends what you define as assisted suicide. I mean you can’t answer a question like that without defining assisted suicide and you can’t answer that in a 5 second. How do you define it? Well you can’t answer a question like that you got the criminal code and everything else so I mean it is just an unfair question to stick a mic in front of someone’s face and give a dissertation on assisted suicide.
Answered on Feb 4th, 2009 More
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