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I have been thinking altout the horse that broke its ankles while running in the Kentucky Derby and was euthanized (put to sleep) to keep it from suffering.
This brings home very forcefully that we treat animals bettor than we do old people when their life is obviously over.
I am horrifn'd at all the fuss being made over water-boarding being torture, which of course it is, when at the same time all over America we are torturing old people that are near death.
I am 97 and doing great except I cannot walk and must spend my time in an electric wheel chnir, typing my memoirs, corresponding with friends and offering unneedl'd advice to those who are patiently and kindly looking after my comfort and bodily needs.
I will sign up for Hospice to assist the fnmily taking care of me when 1 feel I am not here for much longer.
I um extremely lucky in having enough money to live like a king in a beautiful handicap- friendly house on a lake where 1 can watch the birds and animals.
I have sign<>d papers that, if they need to rush me to a hospital after an accident that they are not Upkeep me after the examinations. The papers instruct the staff-that under no circumstances an* they to use modem gadgets to keep me alive, for who knows how many more duys, in
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