Murder by Drug Overdose Promoted on Boston "Ilegal"

Last week I had the unfortunate opportunity to view a television program euphemistically titled 'Boston Legal." I had never watched a full expisode since I had formally worked in the legal profession, and left due to how political this profession had become, without any semblance of adherence to both the morals and actual language of the Rule of Law in this country, our Constitution.

Euthanisia is heavily promoted by the left wing socialists in this country, Hollywood basically being the heart of this convoluted thinking.

On this episode, the character played by Candice Bergen's father was apparently suffering from Alzheimer's Disease and while hospitalized, had tried to escape from his hospital room by jumping resulting in some broken ribs and other injuries. Ms. Bergen's character also was distressed apparently since her father was no longer able to recognize her. In her 'compassion,' she eventually hired one of her cronies to file a lawsuit so that she could relieve her father of his suffering by having the court issue an order to begin a morphine drip in order to 'relieve his pain,' contrary to the doctor's who had already relieved his pain with analgesics (Codeine) as their sworn Hippocratic oaths to promote and save life whenever possible.

After much dramatics and a segway into a reference to another character's possible early symptoms of Alzeheimer's, the judge complied with the request and ordered that Ms. Bergen's character's fathers time was up and a legal murder was in order, due to the pain and suffering he must have been experiencing, and Ms. Bergen's shame that she had to be a witness to such a decline in her father's physical and mental capacities.

References were made in a roundabout manner to the Teri Schiavo case in that it was legal to remove hydration defined as 'artificial' life support (although all human beings do require food and water in order to survive, no matter what the age or physical or mental capacity). This request was seen as more 'humane' than what was already legally sanctioned, and a plea for legalized euthanisia.

Leave it to Hollywood to obsure the actual point. Ms. Schiavo was literally starved and deydrated to death. That should not be legal in any state in this nation, and is THE MOST PAINFUL form of death imaginable, whether or not any judge plays God and so orders such a murder. It is unfortunate that as we age, dementia may or may not set in. Instead of viewing such an eventual decline as a natural part of the life and death cycle, in order to relieve our own anxieties and pain at watching a parent or loved one go through such a progression, it is so much easier emotionally and financially to just swiftly step in and 'put them out of their misery.' Pain is involved in birth, and it is also involved in death - and it is unfortunate that Hollywood tends to subscribe to the Nazi form of cleansing - 'only the young, strong and productive' are worthy of life, and are to be the judge of the quality of that life.

The founders would be apalled - and I've watched my last episode of 'Boston Illegal."