1.) What is your profession?
- Supervisor of Hospice of St. Mary that I initially founded in 2005
2.) What is your perspective on voluntary euthanasia/physician-assisted suicide?
- It has to be definitely a terminal illness and dying in less than 6 months. If you know your dying I think you decide what to do with yourself.
3.) What are your thoughts on opposing views?
- Death by torture and suffering vs. death by a calm and pain-free way...They are going to die anyway. Its inhumane to allow people to suffer for example bone cancer patients who undergo extensive and invasive chemotherapy.
4.) If a loved one had a terminal illness and requested for euthanasia, would you agree to his/her request?
- No, I would put them on hospice care and let them live a quality life because I know what we do in the hospice.
5.) Do you have any first-hand experience with the subject?
- With the terminally ill patients, yes. Euthanasia, no.
6.) Did any patient ever request euthanasia?
- Actually yes. I had one patient 30s, very young, female, ovarian cancer, hispanic. She just kept asking us to give her something because she wanted to die. However we don't do that in the hospice.
7.) Why do you believe that euthanasia is legal in other countries but not in the U.S?
- Those countries; Pharmaceutical companies don't rule those countries because in the united states unfortunately the pharmaceutical companies are like a government by themselves. Those countries actually care about human life. Rather than the us capitalism based on business and money.
8.) Are you familiar with the actions of Dr. Jack Kevorkian?
- (Giggles) Yes.
9.) What are your thoughts on his prison sentence?
- They should have taken the license away not jailed him. I think that what he did could have been handled differently.
10.) Do you have any questions for me?
- No. but I appreciate you interviewing me for your project.
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