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03-04-2005, 08:02 PM
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- A terminally ill cancer patient who tried to end his life with drugs prescribed under Oregon's assisted-suicide law awoke three days later, alert and talkative, his wife said.
David Prueitt, who had lung cancer, took what was believed to be a fatal dose of a barbiturate prescribed by his doctor in January. He fell into a coma within minutes, but woke up three days later, said his wife Lynda Romig Prueitt.
Prueitt's wife told The Oregonian newspaper that he asked, "Why am I not dead?"
:lol Sorry. I know he's terminally ill, but his blunt question just tickled my funnybone.
CNN story (http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/04/assisted.suicide.survivor.ap/index.html)
David Prueitt, who had lung cancer, took what was believed to be a fatal dose of a barbiturate prescribed by his doctor in January. He fell into a coma within minutes, but woke up three days later, said his wife Lynda Romig Prueitt.
Prueitt's wife told The Oregonian newspaper that he asked, "Why am I not dead?"
:lol Sorry. I know he's terminally ill, but his blunt question just tickled my funnybone.
CNN story (http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/04/assisted.suicide.survivor.ap/index.html)