TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 29,1997
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Choice only dying can make
living it. Forcing a person to
exist isn’t moral nor humane,
especially when medical science
today can prolong one’s agony
long past the time a person would
have died naturally. If it’s wrong
to assist a dying person to pass
on from this life to the next, how
is it right to force someone to
live past the time they would
normally have died?
When it comes right down to it,
this choice can only be made
between each individual and
God. If 51 doesn't pass it doesn't
mean anyone will be forced to
kill themselves, with or without
the aid of a doctor, it just means
the choice will be where it should
be. That is a personal decision-
not a public one.
(s) Laune
Reichardt
Heppner
Twice Upon a Time... for sale
working on a plan for that, I find
To the Editor:
Yes, the rumors are true. Twice that I keep visualizing additions
upon a time... is for sale. I began to the business. We started with
to consider looking for a buyer in inventory of about 3000 used
last spring. Since then, Dan and paperbacks. We now have an
I have debated the question and inventory of more than 8000
gradually come to the conclusion titles. We have added the digital
that I do choose to senously seek color copier and the word
processing services, and I now
a buyer.
The decision is difficult. The would like to see the addition of
store has proven, I think, to be a three more related services.
useful
addition
to
our Obviously, the time has come to
community. Nearly 200 citizens sell.
I would like to find a local
regularly trade paperback books
with us, and many individuals person to continue the business.
and businesses use our word It is presently not big enough to
processing and photocopying provide a livelihood, but it has
services.
The business is shown constant growth since we
certainly a source of pleasure for opened and would be growing
me. I look forward to going back even faster if we were actively
to the store on Mondays and soliciting business around the
greatly enjoy the customers and area. I have every reason to
believe that it will continue to
the projects I work on.
However, without a crystal grow in volume, even without the
ball, we did not foresee three additions I am thinking about,
years ago the changes in our life but especially with them. If
and the need and desire to have • anyone is interested in the
room in my schedule for other business, I am always looking for
activities.
And instead of a good visit at the store.
(s) Dons Brosnan
Heppner
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Remember, managed health care
makes more money when less
care is given. This is not far
fetched. Once we allow our
society to judge "quality of life"
will the mentally or physically
handicapped be encouraged to
obtain lethal prescriptions?
Measure 16 does not require
family notification of the
patient's suicidal intent, so the
family may not be able to
respond. Nor 'does it require
evaluation for depression, which
many suicidal patients suffer
from. If depression and pain are
managed, the inclination to
commit suicide is drastically
reduced.
We have medications and
means of administration to allow
for a pain-free death. Perhaps we
need to look at the current laws
on narcotics, which may be
inhibiting
doctors
from
prescribing medications to keep
their patients pain-free. We have
the right to refuse extraordinary
means of treatment or life
support, but to go one step
further and induce death is
deadly wrong. Don't let Oregon
lead our country down this
deadly path.
Please vote yes on Measure 51.
Let the gift of medicine promote
life, not destroy it.
(s)Aim Lindsay Murray
Pharmacist
(s) John P- Murray
Pharmacist
Murray Drugs Inc.
Heppner, Condon
To the Editor:
As pharmacists we are
compelled to speak out in
support of Measure 51 to repeal
physician
assisted
suicide.
Measure 16, which has been held
up by a court battle narrowly
passed to allow doctors and
pharmacists to help kill patients.
The law allowed for oral
medications to provide a drug
overdose. However, in up to 25
percent of barbiturate overdoses,
death is not immediate, but rather
a lingering one involving
convulsions, vomiting, aspiration
pneumonia and brain damage.
Should we go one step further to
I.V. medications and give a lethal
injection or perhaps suffocation
to kill faster? The proponents of
16 now reveal such methods may
be necessary. It would only be a
matter of time until we could
move to this level.
According to a report in the
"New England Journal of
Medicine", in The Netherlands
(where assisted suicide and
euthanasia are wide-spread) 22-
30 percent of Dutch patients who
die at the hands of their doctors
have not given consent. Twenty-
seven percent of doctors in
Holland admitted killing patients
without their consent. Measure
16 would be exempt from
scrutiny because doctors are
prohibited from putting the true
cause of death on the death
certificate. Too many abuses
could occur.
We are fearful that the sick or
elderly would, in time, after
"mercy -killing" is accepted in
our society; feel they have a
"duty to die" to get out of the
way for the rest of society. Do
you want to trust that insurance
companies would not "exclude
coverage" for those after a
certain
age
or
illness?
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Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
The right to die by terminally ill
people with their doctor's
assistance is a choice only the
dying person should have the
right to make. If measure 51 is
passed or not the choice to live or
die, when it comes right down to
it, still remains with the
individual person.
If 51 passes, doctor assisted
suicide will be against the law,
but it won't change the fact that it
has and will continue to happen.
Death many times can be
delayed, but it can never be
prevented- if you're bom you die.
In life everyone has choices. It’s
a learning experience. One of
the things that makes life' worth
living isn’t mere existence, but
quality a person discovers while
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Heppner m erchants will be sp o n so rin g a
creative writing contest for youth on Hallow
een, Friday, Oct. 31.
Youth (grades K-2nd, 3rd-4th, 5th-6th,
7th-8th, high school) will enter participating
b u sin e sse s and locate the “sca ven ger items”
designated in the store (items m ay be Hal
loween or non-Halloween). T h e y will write
down all the items, then write a story in 2 50
w ords or le ss that includes all the items. The
story should be a Halloween story and will be
judged 5 0 % on creativity and interest, and
5 0 % on correct gram mar (depending on age).
Ea ch a ge group will have a winner receiv
ing a $25 gift certificate redeemable in any
participating business. The grand prize win
ner will have their story published in the G a
zette-Times. All stories will be displayed by
the b u sinesses.
Entries must be turned in by the following
Friday, Nov. 7 by 6 p.m. at the following mer
chants: Gazette-Times, S h o e Box, G ard ner’s
M e n ’s Wear, C o a st to Coast, N.W. Motel and
M urray’s Drug. W inners will be posted in the
paper the following week.
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