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Posted on 06/10/2016 11:18:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
Anyone who pays money to see a movie about a quadriplegic is only a glutton for punishment.
Sounds revolting, thanks for the heads-up.
I think Millennials eat this stuff up. Instead of getting off their butts to raise a family and get a career, they’d rather wallow in self-pity, as they live with their aging parents after coming home from getting a degree in under-water basket weaving.
Well there is nothing wrong with a movie about a quadriplegic. What is wrong is that he is assisted with suicide.
Doesn’t it? Besides suicide is murder and therefor a sin.
Very timely post!
Is there any doubt that Hollywood, news and entertainment media, government, and academia work in consort to push new societal ideas and governance initiatives.
Media and Hollywood have been fawning over a new film touting the virtues of assisted suicide, released just in time as California’s assisted suicide law that goes into effect June 9th 2016.
Life influences fiction, or does fiction influence life?
Assisted suicide:New California law to take effect June 9
KPCC | March 10, 2016 | Paul Glickman
Posted on Thu Jun 9 15:00:08 2016 by MarchonDC09122009
http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/03/10/58421/assisted-suicide-new-calif-law-to-take-effect-june/
Assisted suicide:New California law to take effect June 9.
Fourth state in the US with such a law.
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California’s citizens indicate there are solidly pro-Choice / pro-Abortion (in favor of an adult choosing to kill their innocent infant for whatever reason).
So naturally it stands to reason the state thinks similarly about residents having the choice of assisted suicide.
Ironic that CA has the death penalty still on the books and refuses to carry out the law against its worst murderous monsters.
1 posted on Thu Jun 9 15:00:08 2016 by MarchonDC09122009
Well, obviously you’ve never seen “Monkey Shines” :P
My twenty four year old daughter loved the book and the movie. She insisted on reading passages of it to me. It’s very well written but I was horrified by the story.
She loved the tragedy of it. We’ve had some interesting conversation because of it.
In my real life, I’m an advocate for assisted suicide. I believe it to be self-evident that nobody should suffer needlessly and that if somebody is terminal and wants to spare themselves and their family and their friends the painful throes of death, that is absolutely their prerogative.
I’ve never heard a non-religious argument against my position. I’m not entirely sure there is one. I for one have no patience for people trying to codify their religious beliefs in U.S. law.
Wow, you’re an advocate for assisted suicide. How voluntary does it have to be? Can the person who “wants” to die have said something years ago, in order to qualify? Is with holding food and water an okay way to go?
You have a lot of good company - eugenicists, Terry Schiavo’s husband, those who want to get rid of useless eaters, those who run suicide parlors in Switzerland, the NIH’s “pathway to death” designers, and plenty more. No icky religion there.
2ndDivisionVet - do you have the ping lists? If no one has them, maybe I should start them up again.
My father was a quadriplegic for 11 years before he finally committed suicide via overdose. Someone must have helped him but we don’t know who. He went slowly insane over those 11 years. I thought then and I think today it would have been better if he’d died in the accident. It was awful watching a healthy man turn into a wild-eyed scarecrow.
I wouldn't say that. "The Other Side of the Mountain" is a 1975 movie based on a true story about a young skier who was headed to the Olympics before a ski accident left her paralyzed. The movie shows her adjustment to life after becoming a paraplegic. I only saw the movie once, when it was new, and it left a life-long impression on me. The real person it portrayed died in 2012 at the age of 75.
Yeah, that’s precisely the sort of thing I work to end. I’m always amazed at the people who oppose euthanasia on moral grounds, as though it’s in any way moral to force people you love to suffer, often long after they’re no longer really the people you love anymore. My entire family has long advocated for their own euthanasia while they were alive and healthy, and not having that option always seemed unspeakably cruel. My mother lingered in a hospital bed for two weeks and would’ve been utterly aghast at such a circumstance.
And in other related Assisted suicide news, this just in:
Gay man, 39, has asked to be euthanised under Belgium’s radical right to die laws because he cannot
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3439006/posts
“But sometimes movie studios are just plain guilty of false advertising.”
Sometimes?????
Is the last line in the Movie “Soylent Green, it’s People”?
bttt
I have a friend who has been in the hospital for a couple weeks.
She was in ICU on a ventilator, totally non-responsive. Couldn’t even breath on her own.
I visited her a couple times and prayed for her a couple times.
The third time, I decided to quote some Scripture to her. I no sooner started when her heart rate dropped and her BP went up. (the needed direction for both). I watched the monitor in awe as that happened.
I kept speaking and a few minutes later, she opened her eyes. Then she lifted her arm.
Within a half an hour, she was moving around.
Within a couple days, she had improved so much that they took her off the ventilator.
She’s going to be transferred to a regular room soon.
What a miracle because they weren’t even sure there was brain activity.
There’s never *No hope*.
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