Assisted Suicide's Grave Implications

Townhall.com ^ | April 18, 2015 | Kathryn Lopez

[Trailerpark Badass]

The fact that there are so many legal, moral, and logistical problems surrounding the act of committing suicide is evidence, at least to me, that it's not a good idea.

As for state-approved options to alleviate those, it's entirely possible that none exist. That's certainly what I believe, even if you don't.

But we're not really talking suicide here, but conspiracy to commit murder. It doesn't get much more selfish than that.

[logi_cal869]

Ah. I retract my prior.

Quashing debate for religious reasons or because it’s unpleasant to discuss and easier to let the State come up with a solution...

Appalling. Worse that I stepped into the arena and others are just watching. But that’s Ok. I can fight my own battles. The problem is that this social problem will only get worse and, lacking individual rights, will be relegated to backroom/black market scenarios where the State doesn’t end up making the decision for those poor people and/or the families.

Or, worse, convalescent homes will be ‘the next big thing’, business-wise (I type that simultaneously with seriousness & sarcasm).

This is not about suicide or, as you put it, ‘murder’, but dignity and individual rights, both in life AND death and, as I’m finding, tends to expose the most deep-seated hypocrisies from those that oppose it.

[cva66snipe]

I am not the one with the conflict.

Yes you are. You are demanding laws be written so others can end your life for you at your beckoning. Suicide has never been a "Right" in the Judeo/Christian history nor this nation and yes that matters because like it or not The Bible and the morality therein is the basis of our nations founding and our laws and system of justice are based on that very foundation.

Some of the founding fathers were not Christian likely including Jefferson of which evidence points to him being a Deist. He still believed in GOD as Creator and the one who gives and takes away rights.

[logi_cal869]

You are egregiously in error.

I made a comment prior that is apropos.

Figure it out for yourself.

-fini-