An Old Man Seeks Euthanasia
my afternoons as an old man are sad
the joy of memories
suffocated by the impossibility
to relive them
I don't know how many cups of coffee I've had
a bus runs regularly every hour
and nobody notices me at the window
inside the thoughts boil
so many dead friends muted my phone
the television I understand it as an enemy
the books are already
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Categories:
euthanasia, death, life,
Form: Free verse
An Invitation For Euthanasia
I sent an invitation to all my friends
to come and watch me die
I said, I know you may all be busy
but please at least try.
with the last breath our story is done,
but I hope we shall remain friends
our love should last beyond the grave,
though earth’s journey is at an end.
you may hold my hand
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Categories:
euthanasia, age, allegory, death of
Form: Free verse
Visiting Euthanasia
There's a town in Switzerland called Euthanasia
It's a happy place very much like Fantasia
With pretty flowers
Singing songs by the hour
Where you meet your maker to a balalaika
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Categories:
euthanasia, farewell,
Form: Limerick
Bill C7 Slam Poem
Bill C-7 is a motion to expand medical assistance in dying (MAID) in Canada to persons with disabilities whose deaths are not foreseeable. Persons with disabilities are protesting that the Canadian government is proposing to offer medically assisted deaths to individuals without offering adequate social supports, housing, medical equipment, nutrition, and mental health supports.
After
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Categories:
euthanasia, angst, death, discrimination, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Euthanasia
There's a town in Switzerland called Euthanasia
It's a happy place very much like Fantasia
With pretty flowers
Singing songs by the hour
Where you meet your maker to a balalaika
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Categories:
euthanasia, death,
Form: Limerick
On the Eve of Euthanasia
A little dog is a gift from God
Meant only through life to trod
As a companion to solace our mortal
Frailties through love unconditional.
But loyalty exposes its fatal flaw
When devotion's bonds exceed human law
And penalty is death for an unfailing friend
Whose only sin was a duty to defend.
Hers was love of a kind not easily shared
Yet, fate
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Categories:
euthanasia, animal, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Euthanasia
There's a town in Switzerland called Euthanasia
It's a happy place very much like Fantasia
With pretty flowers
Singing songs by the hour
Where you meet your maker to a balalaika
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Categories:
euthanasia, age,
Form: Limerick
It Is Time To Go
It is time to leave us now
In life of passage we are blessed with an unspoken connection
His destiny quivering in my hands as the decision lies heavy in my heart
Just one more day before we must part?
My eyes closed as I pluck up courage, reliving stories we created together
with the passing of the
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Categories:
euthanasia, animal, bereavement, best friend,
Form: I do not know?
Euthanasia
Yes...
Silently conquering mind, as if no other options to bloom
Her dead brain body still breathing, while my heart pleading a big big
No...
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Categories:
euthanasia, death, life,
Form: Verse
Categories:
euthanasia, allegory, allusion, literature, love,
Form: Free verse
Brrexit
brrEXIT
by Michael R. Burch
what would u give
to simply not exist—
for a painless exit?
he asked himself, uncertain.
then from behind
the hospital room curtain
a patient screamed—
"my life!"
Originally published by Setu
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Categories:
euthanasia, cancer, caregiving, death, health,
Form: Free verse
Aflutter
"This rainbow is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh."—Yahweh
You are gentle now, and in your failing hour
how like the child you were, you seem again,
and smile as sadly as the girl (age ten?)
who held the sparrow with the mangled wing
close to her heart. It marveled at your
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Categories:
euthanasia, suicide,
Form: Sonnet
Euthanasia Laugh Laugh
Euthanasia. Laugh. Laugh. Euthanasia. Giggle. Giggle.
A wonderful subject for conversation in no circles.
And yet, here I am, laughing with my friend about it, at work.
“I think it hilarious that you think you have a daughter who
would put you out of your misery,” she says.
She is doubled over with laughter about it.
I stare at her.
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Categories:
euthanasia, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
New Zealand's Euthanasia Law
Potential Euthanasia law in New Zealand
Encouraging Euthanasia
Profoundly Eye-opening
Might encourage
All kinds of people
Who had never thought of it before
To accept suicide
Unclear if this law has been passed
A dangerous precedent.
Making suicide common
Making taking your own life
Acceptable
Desirable
Natural
Scary to me
What this could do
to a society
Where teenagers are
already casually killing themselves
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Categories:
euthanasia, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Visiting Euthanasia
There's a town in Switzerland called Euthanasia
It's a happy place very much like Fantasia
With pretty flowers
Singing songs by the hour
Where we meet our maker to a balalaika
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Categories:
euthanasia, scary,
Form: Limerick
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