By

James Bredin

I’m trying to help you out with your future big decision,

The upcoming timing of your death with some precision,

Because it’s going to happen whether you like it or not,

Though you could roll over back to sleep and say you forgot.

Assisted suicide or euthanasia may be your answer,

If you are involved in great pain when they tell you “cancer”,

The question is; will you die in great throbbing pain and sorrow,

Or dodge the painful bullet coming soon at you like an arrow.

It’s the combination of drugs, pain and your approaching death,

Its politics and religion and expectations never met,

It’s the unknown schedule of events coming down the pipe,

Despite how they lie in their pompous propaganda hype.

Sunday, January 06, 2008

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By

James Bredin

Why should we be so subservient and never kick up a fuss?

Should we have referendums or recall or maybe discuss?

And why should the idea of assisted suicide be demonized?

And religious naysayers act as though they were canonized.

As they denounce euthanasia as the easy way out,

It should be forbidden they say and no one in any doubt,

Or it’s off to hell for those who would commit this mortal sin,

Their souls banished to burn for all eternity with their kin.

Is it because they had their way for all these centuries?

And now they want those who require change in penitentiaries?

They say you can’t reverse the tide and no one dies from old age,

Trapped by religious Charter-Rights fanatics at every stage.

Saturday, January 05, 2008

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By

James Bredin

The religious cults of the status quo want nothing to change,

They claim that folk who want assisted suicide may be deranged,

The priests, pastors, rabbis, imams, and all those who like to preach,

Want euthanasia forbidden as they say in their pompous speech.

With their studies and statistics they demand it should be banned,

Then they want an obedient population under their command,

And Canadians with Charter Rights should show them more respect,

And assisted suicide policies will be barred as they direct.

It’s just that you’re not allowed to arrange the timing of your death,

You will have to wait obediently till you take your last breath,

Because the doctors say they now can control all the pain,

So this should be obvious to anyone with half a brain.

Thursday, January 03, 2008

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By

James Bredin

This poem is not about pride, pain control or palliative care,

                                       Being a burden to others or flying on a wing and a prayer,                     

It’s about the meaning of democracy for people at large,

Not hidden agenda dictatorship by someone from afar.

We have freedom of choice, religion, culture but not when to die,

You may wonder why this is but don’t even bother to ask why,

They pay for the secret polls and know Canadians want change,

But we’re stuck in the status quo and they refuse to rearrange,

As they publish statistics in their favour every time,

And their judicial appointees tend to be always soft on crime,

They want to delay, study and analyze reports but then stall,

No referendums, recall and they’re all having a ball.

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

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By

James Bredin

Some people are tormented about dying in pain alone,

From a strange dreadful agonizing painful disease of the bone,

These people sometimes suffer great pain for years before they die,

Some doctors say that all pain can be controlled but they lie.

They worry about their controversial Hippocratic Oath,

As they watch some poor soul being choked by a cancerous growth,

They can drug the pain till his/her brain is a vegetative state,

So much for the quality of life and it’s already too late.

Because dying with dignity in Canada is not allowed,

Politicians won’t listen to the pro euthanasia crowd,

No referendums or recall because politicians know it all,

They claim we have Charter Rights but still they continue to stall.

Sunday, December 30, 2007