Posted on 11/02/2009 12:00:34 PM PST by markomalley
The international assisted-suicide movement has many faces. America's "Dr. Death," Jack Kevorkian, probably comes most readily to mind. The activist groups, Compassion & Choices and Final Exit Network, are also well known. Then there is Australia's "Dr. Death," Philip Nitschke, who travels the world teaching people how to commit suicide with helium or animal-euthanasia drugs obtained from Mexico.
On Sunday, Nitschke will bring his suicide seminar to the Buddhist Center in San Francisco, where he will teach attendees how to kill themselves.
Shouldn't there be limits to assisted-suicide permissiveness? Not according to Nitschke, who bluntly takes assisted-suicide advocacy to its logical conclusion. If we each own our bodies, he says, and if self-termination is an acceptable answer to human suffering, then assisted suicide shouldn't be restricted to limited "subgroups," such as the dying. Indeed, in 2001 interview with National Review Online, Nitschke asserted that "all people qualify ... including the depressed, the elderly bereaved, the troubled teen."
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I don't believe Buddhists approve of suicide. Lousy karma. Of course, in San Francisco, anything's possible.
Well, I for one don’t “own” my body any more. I was bought and paid for by the death of a man named Jesus, aka God the Son. So, my life is not mine, and it is forever.
So sad for those who don’t accept His offer and not only must die, but can’t wait around long enough for it to happen on its own.
Too bad the good Dr. couldn't lead by example.
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