Don't know about that, Ron-- but there's a big difference between euthanasia and palliative care, as practiced in Hospices for example. Actually, there really IS a need for doctors to learn how to relieve needless end of life suffering, as those who saw the Bill Moyers' PBS series,"On Our Own Terms" can recall. But golly--at present I really really hate to say anything "nice" about Senator B. !!!!! >perhaps the Senator is pushing euthanasia? > >>As near as I can figure, Brownback's new Amendment will not allow >>funding for Stem Cell Research , but when >>we all get bad enough, funding will be provided so we can all >>become drug addicts and spend our last days on earth bombed >>out of our minds. >> >>Someone please explain this to me, because I certainly don't >>understand it. >> >>just me, >>Marjorie >>67/58/55 > >-- >Ron Vetter 1936, '84 PD dz >mailto:[log in to unmask] >http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~rfvetter Camilla Flintermann, CG for Peter 82/70/55 Oxford, Ohio <[log in to unmask]> on PDWebring at http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/genugten/flinterm.htm "Ask me about the CARE list for Caregivers of Parkinsonians ! " And visit the CARE webring at http://www.crosswinds.net/~caregivers/index.html