Early stages of Parkinson's. Maybe it's this simple and focused: he didn't want to go through it. Sure, there's treatment and there are living models of how that works. Maybe it wasn't for him. It wouldn't be for me.
In a humane, caring culture that doesn't engage double-speak, a culture that respected the individual and truly valued "death with dignity," Williams would tell his doctor, I do not want to live with this decline in quality. Help me. And the doctor would give him life-ending medication. He wouldn't be forced into the indignity of using a belt.
The real indignity is ours, with our claims to care about individual freedom and death with dignity.
In a humane, caring culture that doesn't engage double-speak, a culture that respected the individual and truly valued "death with dignity," Williams would tell his doctor, I do not want to live with this decline in quality. Help me. And the doctor would give him life-ending medication. He wouldn't be forced into the indignity of using a belt.
The real indignity is ours, with our claims to care about individual freedom and death with dignity.
