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To: trisham
Isn’t that up to God?

Yes. It is between God and man. The government should stay out of it. You agree?

10 posted on 06/04/2011 4:01:45 PM PDT by SeeSac
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To: SeeSac

You’re going to have to be more forthcoming. Do you believe that God or the government should sanction assisted suicide, which is simply a euphemism for murder?


11 posted on 06/04/2011 4:07:11 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: SeeSac

So by “the government staying out of it” you have to mean “let’s pass laws permitting pharmacists to prescibe lethal drugs to kill people, and laws permitting physicians to give said lethal drugs to patients in order to cause their deaths, and laws permitting nurses or other medical people to help administer said lethal drugs to patients”.

Somehow that doesn’t seem like “leaving the government out of it” to me.


26 posted on 06/04/2011 4:35:27 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: SeeSac; trisham
Yes. It is between God and man. The government should stay out of it. You agree?

That's right the government should stay out of it. No sanctioning it by the government. No making murder legal.

The person who takes his own life answers to God for it. Nobody else should be involved and thereby become a murderer. No one person has the right to weigh another down with having that to answer to God for.

Nothing is stopping anyone from taking their own life but it is unconscionable to ask another person to become a murderer for their own convenience.

The time of a person's death is up to God. Period. Not God and man, just God.

27 posted on 06/04/2011 4:35:39 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: SeeSac

But then, I’m so old fashioned and in favor of Constitutional government that my POV is that the government and the medical profession should stay out of the killing business, other than legal executions for capital crimes.


29 posted on 06/04/2011 4:37:43 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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