"Montana's Law Protected Me." 99 Such courses were off the table. So, instead, I went to college to seek a degree in education. While in college, I participated in wheelchair racing at the state, national and international levels. I met my husband and 21 years later the honeymoon is not over. We have three beautiful daughters and a new baby granddaughter. I am also active in my community I read the guest column, "People living with disabiliies support death with dignity," which advocates for legalizing assisted suicide and euthanasia for the disabled. I could be described as such a person and this opinion does not speak for me. I am strongly against these practices When I was in high school, I was on track to get a basketball scholarship to college. And then, I was in a car accident. The accident left me ina wheelchair, a quadriplegic. In addition to my paralysis, I had other difficulties. Over the next few years, I gave serious thought to suicide. And I had the means to do it, but both times I got close, I stopped myself. Montana's law protected me. Assisted suicide and euthanasia should not be legal. Lucinda Hardy, Columbia Falls Missoulian, Letters To The Editor, 8/7/14 If instead, my doctor, an authority figure, had told me that ending my life was a rational course, there might have been a different result. If instead, he had given me a lethal dose to ingest or offered to euthanize me, I might have gone along with it But assisted suicide and euthanasia were not legal in Montana Tell your legislators, the governor and candidates for office that you don't want assisted suicide and euthanasia www.Choicelllusion.org "CHOICE" IS AN ILLUSION A non-profit corporation opposed to assisted suicide and euthanasia. Visit us in the fair Grandstand Building Lucinda at the fair. 2018 "Montana's Law Protected Me." 99 Such courses were off the table. So, instead, I went to college to seek a degree in education. While in college, I participated in wheelchair racing at the state, national and international levels. I met my husband and 21 years later the honeymoon is not over. We have three beautiful daughters and a new baby granddaughter. I am also active in my community I read the guest column, "People living with disabiliies support death with dignity," which advocates for legalizing assisted suicide and euthanasia for the disabled. I could be described as such a person and this opinion does not speak for me. I am strongly against these practices When I was in high school, I was on track to get a basketball scholarship to college. And then, I was in a car accident. The accident left me ina wheelchair, a quadriplegic. In addition to my paralysis, I had other difficulties. Over the next few years, I gave serious thought to suicide. And I had the means to do it, but both times I got close, I stopped myself. Montana's law protected me. Assisted suicide and euthanasia should not be legal. Lucinda Hardy, Columbia Falls Missoulian, Letters To The Editor, 8/7/14 If instead, my doctor, an authority figure, had told me that ending my life was a rational course, there might have been a different result. If instead, he had given me a lethal dose to ingest or offered to euthanize me, I might have gone along with it But assisted suicide and euthanasia were not legal in Montana Tell your legislators, the governor and candidates for office that you don't want assisted suicide and euthanasia www.Choicelllusion.org "CHOICE" IS AN ILLUSION A non-profit corporation opposed to assisted suicide and euthanasia. Visit us in the fair Grandstand Building Lucinda at the fair. 2018