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[00:00:29] You are now listening to Dreas Point of View, a female hosted podcast
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[00:00:54] Without further ado, here's your hostess, Drea.
[00:01:07] You are listening to Dreas Point of View. I am your hostess, Drea.
[00:01:12] And today, I'm going to be talking to you about a
[00:01:15] short film that I saw at this film festival a while back.
[00:01:20] It's about an older woman. She had a terminal illness
[00:01:25] and she wanted to end her life early
[00:01:28] instead of
[00:01:30] living in pain.
[00:01:31] She had a husband who respected her decision and
[00:01:34] talked to her daughter and son-in-law about it and her
[00:01:38] daughter, as expected, didn't take it well thought she was
[00:01:42] being selfish.
[00:01:44] Years ago, I know we all remember Jack of Orchion.
[00:01:48] They called him Dr. Death. There was a huge deal around that,
[00:01:51] that what he was doing was wrong for helping people
[00:01:54] die,
[00:01:55] you know, mainly for religious reasons as well.
[00:01:58] So in the movie,
[00:02:01] one night the family got together. Now she had a full life, the woman.
[00:02:06] Family got together. She told her daughter she'd be
[00:02:09] doing it, so I guess she'd be taking something, whether it's pills or an elixir.
[00:02:14] She'd be doing it the next day and her daughter just refused to be there to watch.
[00:02:19] So the woman decided to do it a day early
[00:02:23] and she got dressed up.
[00:02:25] If there was ever a way I knew how to spend my last night on earth, that would be it. She got dressed up.
[00:02:32] They danced,
[00:02:33] had a nice meal,
[00:02:35] a lot of laughs
[00:02:37] and the husband eventually put the elixir in her wine,
[00:02:40] gave it to her and then he put the other half in his wine. Now she had no idea that he planned to leave with her.
[00:02:46] He told this touching story,
[00:02:48] couldn't live without her,
[00:02:50] didn't want her to be alone.
[00:02:52] So they wrote a note.
[00:02:56] The daughter found it the next day.
[00:02:59] Now there wasn't a dry eye in the house after this.
[00:03:02] I mean you really had to just see this. The whole thing was just so emotional for it to be a short.
[00:03:07] Of course if I saw it was a short film under about 20 minutes.
[00:03:11] After the film they had the actors there talking about it.
[00:03:14] I don't remember what the lady said but she had a relatable situation dealing with her mom.
[00:03:19] Now only 10 states do allow assisted deaths. That's California,
[00:03:25] Colorado,
[00:03:27] DC,
[00:03:28] Hawaii,
[00:03:30] Maine,
[00:03:31] New Mexico,
[00:03:33] New Jersey,
[00:03:34] Oregon,
[00:03:36] Vermont and Washington state.
[00:03:38] Now two doctors have to sign off on the diagnosis
[00:03:42] and you have to be given a prognosis about having six months to live.
[00:03:47] Now I already have my final wishes written down. Everybody pretty much knows what I want to do. That's
[00:03:53] not an option for me.
[00:03:56] Now I don't have children or do I plan to have any
[00:04:00] even if I had a spouse.
[00:04:02] I'm not sure if I would change that mainly for religious reasons.
[00:04:05] I don't know if I wanted to be gone a little bit early.
[00:04:09] Even if I am in pain, I definitely want to
[00:04:13] be with them a little bit longer.
[00:04:16] Now
[00:04:18] I don't know could you do this like who?
[00:04:21] I'm not against this for someone else though.
[00:04:23] I totally get it because who wants to be in pain? What purpose would you serve?
[00:04:29] If you are in pain every day, I don't know if I would be able to watch my spouse if he considered
[00:04:37] doing that. I don't know. I mean I wouldn't want anybody else to be in pain so
[00:04:41] for that reason I would be for it but for religious reasons I would not
[00:04:45] want to speed up my death.
[00:04:49] Knowing that I possibly wouldn't be going to heaven from it. Not like I'd be going anyway.
[00:04:55] I'm hoping. But you know I don't think I would be
[00:05:00] going if I assisted in my death so just something to think about. Would you
[00:05:07] consider dying with dignity?
[00:05:11] My podcast of the day is One Mike Black History. The host is
[00:05:19] Country Boy and he talks about little known events in black history
[00:05:24] or people and their effects that they have on history. He can be heard on Apple podcast so
[00:05:32] make sure you check that out. You follow him on IG as well. I also invite you to follow me
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[00:06:02] I thank you for listening. I love you for listening. This has been Dreya's Point of View.
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