Assisted Suicide

I recently attended a San Diego Hospice conference for health care professionals called “Special Care for Special People.” To my distress and others present, the keynote speaker encouraged us to at least consider removing food and water from patients who are “terminal” and “let them die.” We were asked to consider assisted suicide and injecting lethal substances into patients, which the speaker said is “good.” She encouraged us to join the Hemlock Society, which writes such books such as “Final Exit,” which teaches the “practicalities of assisted suicide.”

There was no speaker from the viewpoint of natural dying.

San Diego should be very nervous about this type of involvement by San Diego Hospice.

CONNIE YOUNGKIN, R.N., Poway