Peter D. Richardson - How To Die In Oregon - Sundance 2011 - Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

[StraightouttaHouston]

R.I.P. Jack Kevorkian

[cinndave]

I was at the Somerville debut last week in David Square, because Nancy DiLeva Niedjelski is a distant relative of mine. She came to many openings across the country but couldn't come to this one. Half the theater was sobbing at the end of the last scene. Not one person got up from their seat before the credits finished. I've yet to meet one person who wasn't on her side of the issue after watching this film.

[dclate62]

Taking your own life, regardless of the circumstances, is intervening in what God had planned for you...'Experience is the greatest gift'....there is purpose in all experience, whether it be climbing Everest, washing the dishes, the view of a full moon....or slowly 'suffering' from a terminal illness. All are a gift called 'life'..you may not realise it now,..but you will when you leave this realm. Don't deny yourself the gift of experience by playing God. Let the Creator chose when it's time...

[rxlove1111]

@dclate62 do you believe in the pharmaceutical industry?

[dclate62]

@rxlove1111 ....Do i recognize an industry that make millions from the suffering of others ?..yes, i do. Their motto is " There is no money in good health". If you think about it, every medicine comes from the Earth, whether it be pharmaceutical or 'alternative/complimentary'. One is mixed in a lab with big lettering on the outside wall, and one picked from a field or garden or combined with a different 'Ethos'. One type usually requires you to take another to counter the side effects !!

[percymate]

@dclate62 See this movie, it will definitely change your conception of what a person with cancer feels. They suffer. They are not just 'suffering' as you say with the mini quotes. They feel intense pain that completely destroys their sense of self and takes away any semblance of dignity they once had. I would rather leave my family with a happy image of me being conscious and partially intact. With cancer a person could find themselves in mental limbo and losing control of all bodily function.

[dclate62]

@percymate I saw my father die of cancer, so i know exactly how it looks or feels. luckily my Dad only needed morphine twice. I know it's an awful thing to witness. It really comes down to a belief system. I personally would go through the process. I think you actually rob your nearest and dearest of a great opportunity too when you take your own life. A lot of things were said and done in those final weeks that meant so much to all. If Dad had popped a few pills, that would have never happened.

[55ella2007k]

@dclate62 The Creator gave us brains, no? Being kept artificially alive may NOT be one of those choices that the Creator had in mind, either. Without intervention of any kind (just the Creator at work here), many of these people would have died years ago, period. What is it with people, who always refer to the Creator, when it's a constant double standard? In the end, we must all die, period. There is enough hell on earth, even without some eternal hell fire around afterwards.

[dclate62]

@55ella2007k Each to their own. As long as we are happy with our choices...

[KD853]

@55ella2007k You speak of your "creator"....... Why? would it give you sickness? if? it loves you so much it would not harm you or us? We have our brains because "we" "humans" looked up to the stars and asked ourselves "why are they there" thats why were on top of the food chain...and thats the bottom line cause stone cold said so 3:16

[tangerinehippie]

@dclate62 You missed the point of the film you twat. God has nothing to do with it. If you had the option to end your terminal suffering, would you just wait around for God? Shut up.

[dclate62]

@tangerinehippie Sad that you have to stoop to telling a total stranger to 'Shut up' and call him a 'twat'...not sure what it says about me...but i think i can figure out what it says about you....

[Cinemalex]

I am very interested in seeing this documentary and hope it will be a great instrument in swaying states and countries to pass similar laws. Next up will hopefully be inclusion of non-terminal but debilitating diseases nonetheless, like severe depression and other extreme psychological illness.