DEATH WITH DIGNITY AND YOU .... DEC 19TH, 2014

DEATH WITH DIGNITY AND YOU     ...    DEC 19TH, 2014

BY

JAMES BREDIN

Too many of my old comrades died in hospital beds,

Though I can still remember almost everything they said,

They had no choice about when, where or how they would die,

Without doctor assisted death, they couldn't even ask why?

It's a subject that our politicians will never discuss,

Because in Canada, they believe, it was ever thus,

Though they got it in Quebec which is a mystery to me,

Should we pay attention or pretend we don't see?

We don't have binding referendums so we're stuck,

No death with dignity for you or a non Quebec Canuck,

And our politicians are busy at the moment, here and there,

Without death-with-dignity, we don't have a prayer.

Dec 19th, 2014