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Assisted Suicide Is “Putting People Down”
Townhall.com ^ | May 7, 2016 | Richard Weikhart

Posted on 05/07/2016 8:22:32 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/07/2016 8:22:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Last year the UK TV personality Ursula Presgrave generated controversy by her Facebook posting: “Anyone born with down syndrome should be put down, it’s just cruel to let them lead a pointless life of a vegetable.”

Vegetable? That sounds like the people who will be voting either for Hillary or Bernie this November. rotton useless Vegetables. They prefer to be nothing more. Then again I prefer the term weeds.

2 posted on 05/07/2016 8:24:43 AM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away After America , There is No Place to Go)
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Hitler embraced eugenics too.


3 posted on 05/07/2016 8:25:45 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Kaslin

Today it is a “right to die;” tomorrow a duty.


4 posted on 05/07/2016 8:26:46 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

You got it.


5 posted on 05/07/2016 8:27:50 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Especially if the government needs to reduce healthcare costs...


6 posted on 05/07/2016 8:29:38 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Kaslin

Lethal Prescribing has a long history in medicine...
Usually something like this
Patient has terminal cancer
Doctor writes large prescription for methadone and Valium
Enough to handle the discomfort for a month
Instructs patient to take only as directed
or they may never wake up,
and do not drink large amounts of alcohol with it
for the same reason.

Patient dies peacefully in their sleep

It happened quite frequently

I’m not supporting the euthanasia laws, but it would be disingenuous to say that that the above hasn’t happened
for many generations, in one form or another
Quietly and Privately

Morality aside, if someone wants to end their life
that can be accomplished without turning
the healthcare industry into euthanasia dispensaries.


7 posted on 05/07/2016 8:38:59 AM PDT by HangnJudge (Cthulhu for President, why vote for a lesser Evil)
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Does this apply to politicians, cause there are plenty that need to be put down.


8 posted on 05/07/2016 8:41:55 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

> Today it is a “right to die;” tomorrow a duty.

Star season 1 episode # 23 (Taste of Armegeddon) is coming if we don’t put evil in its place


9 posted on 05/07/2016 8:42:57 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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A soon to be divorced friend’s nephew, 37, bought a suicide kit online. It was a fitted plastic bag with a small cylinder of helium. The soon to be former wife knew about it and didn’t tell anyone until after the event. The impact to his family has been devastating. Frankly, I think charges should be brought against the wife, who stood to gain by the suicide. It won’t happen, though.


10 posted on 05/07/2016 8:53:35 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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WE should legalize ecstasy in old folks home. That would make them want to live.


11 posted on 05/07/2016 9:14:32 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Kaslin

Liberals always claim to be a the compassionate ones because they “care” about the poor and the helpless. But they love abortion, including partial birth, think people with birth defects should be killed, want to allow all illegals to stroll across the border, but won’t let them work, therefore making them dependent on welfare and government handouts.

Everything liberals do and think is proof that they could care less about human beings, they just want their votes so liberals can have power and control.

Sick pieces of crap.


12 posted on 05/07/2016 9:26:26 AM PDT by No Socialist
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Ursula evidently sees herself as “perfect”. Well. In this
current realm; I suppose she is - temporarily. - On that
day, Judgment Day; suddenly the last shall become FIRST &
the FIRST shall become LAST. - WHERE will that put Ursula?
- Think about it, Ursula.


13 posted on 05/07/2016 10:08:00 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: HangnJudge

I believe suicide is sin.
However, if a person chooses this sin, no one else should be involved.
Inviting family, friends, or the family doctor to participate is the first step off the slippery slope towards governmental participation.
When any additional party participates, it is no longer suicide (sui = self; cide = murder.) It becomes a homicide, murder by someone other than one’s self. That person’s motive might be something other than the alleviation of the patient’s suffering.
The term “assisted suicide” is another example of leftists’ moral equivocation through the manipulation of language.
It’s murder.


14 posted on 05/07/2016 10:13:04 AM PDT by mumblypeg (Reality is way more complicated than the internet. That's why I'm here.)
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To: Kaslin

Some people just need putting down, but they ain’t the vegetables!


15 posted on 05/07/2016 10:43:09 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Gen.Blather

That is a horrible story.

Any society promoting suicide is a society which is falling apart and soon to be replaced.


16 posted on 05/07/2016 3:54:14 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: HangnJudge

The American people will always support the right of someone else to kill himself.


17 posted on 05/07/2016 4:17:59 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Santorum 2016)
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Yes, and despite all, tens of millions of “Americans” are devoted liberals and always will be.


18 posted on 05/07/2016 4:19:26 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Santorum 2016)
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She was prosecuted for making the post under the “Malicious Communications Act”. That offends me even more than what she said.


19 posted on 05/07/2016 7:00:04 PM PDT by Impy (Did you know "Hillary" spelled backwards is "Bitch"?)
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That is infanticide,child murder and it is not “assisted suicide”.It is not the infant whose deciding whether it lives or dies but whoever is diagnosing it.

Assisted is when someone willingly wants someone else to kill them,to end “suffering”,it is akin to a mental illness.

Putting people down a la Euthanasia would be considered Murder.Since people aren’t agreeing to be put to death,in the case of assisted suicide....they are.Which again says a lot about this society.

No,murdering a toddler or infant isn’t assisted suicide.Since the child doesn’t understand its life much less want to end it.


20 posted on 05/07/2016 9:28:21 PM PDT by Del Rapier
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