Stuff co.nz 20 September 2015
It was not the first time Huhana Hickey had tried to kill herself. She had woken from multiple comas , disappointed she was still breathing.
But this time, the thought was only a fleeting one.
Hickey stared groggily around to see her 9-year-old son standing at the end of the bed. He was scared.
“It was the last time I woke up and saw my son and finally it dawned on me. I wasn’t just hurting myself.
“I made him a promise and I kept that promise.”
Despite a chronic illness and a lifetime of reasons she could give for the opposing argument, Hickey is now a staunch anti-euthanasia campaigner.
For her, a deteriorating quality of life has only led to a desire to see more of it.
But it was not always this way.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/71859102/opposing-sides-of-the-euthanasia-debate