Lawmakers weigh bill to allow doctor-assisted suicide

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2. I support this 100% .We need to control the end of our lives.

As we reach the end on our time on this earth, the decision to end our lives should be our decision. A terminal illness only prolongs our agony and enriches the coffers of the care providers. I don't want my family to be stuck in a situation where my few assets go to a nursing home or hospice. After any assets I have are liquidated to pay for my final care at a hospice facility, Medicare would take anything that may be left. What is the point?. Through the years my late husband and I worked to build up a little to leave to our children. I want to leave my simple assets to them. I certainly don't want to hang around in a state where there is no longer any quality of life.

There is no way I would agree to being plugged in to a machine that would keep my heart beating during a time when I am surely going to die. I don't want my local nursing home to profit from my spending weeks or months as a dying resident.
I want the option of saying that it is time for me to go. Whatever assets I may have should go to my children, not some end-of-life
care facility.

I saw several members of my family go through a prolonged terminal illness. I know that each of them would have said that it is time. Let me go!