Well hell ...
This weekend was particularly rough with the horrors of Allen and Brownsville bringing home the message of how fragile, and sacred life can be. And when a life is extinguished, all they were, all they are and all they could have been ... leave our existence. The scars left on so many families will never go away. How precious life truly can be ... and is.
And then to think of how some doctors take life for granted. How they are so willing to prescribe drugs which extinguish life...
Now, I am not against all Physician Assisted Suicide. By God, if I end up with pancreatic cancer, or a brain tumor, or a medical illness that will surely take my life ... then, by all means. If that happens to me, I have already made plans to fly to St. Maarten, buy an inexpensive sail boat, buy about 3 cases of champagne, 2 pounds of blow, say good bye to my loved ones and then... go sailing off until my heart explodes.
But, not for all conditions. Not for mental health conditions.
On April 25, a case was filed in federal court in Los Angeles. It challenges California's Right to Die Statute. In essence, it alleges that the statute violates the due process and equal protection clauses because of the well known bias in the medical community against people who are disabled... or poor or minorities. And boys... it has legs. I have communicated with the lead attorneys. They referred one of the nation's largest anti Physician Assisted Suicide organizations to me and I have spoken with them.
An article is coming out in the Washington Post about this idiot doctor who came up with her own, Protocol of Death for anorexia. I have had numerous talks with her. And I am figuratively hunting that idiot doctor in Colorado.... being rejected by 25 medical schools, an internist who admits she doesn't know the in depth aspects of the psychological aspects of mental health... Jesus. But, to have a doctor so willingly prescribe death ... is nothing short of reprehensible.
In any event, just needed to vent a bit.
I have the Texas Medical Board after the doctor in Colorado (she has a license in Texas as well). The press. And she knows I am hunting her. She retained an attorney who had the audacity to write: "Let me begin by saying that Dr. Gaudiani and I both understand the overwhelming and lasting grief you must feel from the loss of your daughter to anorexia nervosa.”
No, you idiot ... you don't.
So gentlemen (and if any ladies read this)... I will end this rant like I usually do by saying, "Give your children a hug every day ... look them in the eyes and tell the you love them. That is the most powerful thing you can do!