Posted on 06/22/2014 5:18:19 AM PDT by right-wing agnostic
When a person has a disease that cannot be cured, do you think doctors should be allowed by law to end the patient’s life by some painless means if the patient and his or her family request it?
At first blush, the idea that a euthanasia should be allowed seems to follow a logic. If a person is suffering and wishes to end that suffering then who has the right to tell them no? It is their life, right? Only some troglodyte Bible thumper could possibly deny a person the simple mercy of ending their suffering. In this way it is no different than any other social innovation that has come down the pike over the past 60 or so years. It is a profound evil traveling under the guise of modernism and compassion.
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I’m sorry to hear about your dog as we just had to put our beloved Beagle Buddy down due to hemmorage from a lung tumor. He never suffered at all. We made sure of it. But animials are very different from humans. We have to make decisions for our pets that they cannot make. Its our responsibility.
Humans have the ability to understand what is happening to them and they have a soul. If you are a Christian you believe that God wants you to embrace the death that comes your way. Even if you are not a Christian you should remember that the slippery slope of going from euthanasia to genocide is not a long slide.
I personally do not believe for one minute that 70% of the US citizens believe in euthanasia.
I’m sorry about your beloved dog. I lost my cat this year too.
As for 70% on the poll, I can believe it. I’d like to see how the question was worded. Amazing how if you word something one way or another you can skew and manipulate data. The question might have been worded in such a way to get such a high response.
“If you are a Christian you believe that God wants you to embrace the death that comes your way.”
Choosing the alternative may guarantee that you extinguish your own soul. Of course, if forced Obamanationcare chooses for you, you are not choosing, are you?
Yeh I guess that’s what the end of life counseling in Deathcare is all about. :-)
Yet, they claim to be absolutely opposed to 'the death penalty' in our criminal justice system. Go figure...
the infowarrior
The end of our lives should be in God’s hands.
Why don’t even some religious people get that?
Sad that some people are so easily led by the anti-life left.
“Not to worry. Obamacare takes care of that for you. ..”
Yes, what happened to our Veterans who died will happen to many of us, unless Obama”care” is repealed.
You should be more concenred about the people who WANT TO LIVE, but can’t get treatment, which happens even more frequently when the govt. controls our health insurance/bodies.
I think that is different than euthanasia. Letting nature take it’s course is far different than actively causing death.
I suggest we begin euthanizing 3/4 of the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative Branches of the U.S. government as a start.
Of course they should but the problem is getting the state involved and suddenly euthanasis becomes kill the unproductive for the good of all. The only legislation required is to protect Drs from litigation for giving the patient the morphineand to protect patients from greedy family members. That’s it.
Re your post 49, yes, I know it is. I was merely responding to the last part of the post 11, the person whose grandfather died a prolonged death because the grandmother insisted on heroic measures to keep him alive.
Polling data can be skewed by how the question is asked and pain meds will keep someone comfortable until they die a natural death. If it’s not natural, it’s murder. When it’s a natural death, the person will push food away and they are given hydration through IV so that there’s no chance they can choke on water. No hydration is inexplicable.
Michael Schiavo’s lawyer who finally KILLED TERRI thanks to RINO judges and Gov Jeb and Bush 43, WROTE the IPAB rules with his pal Zeke Emmanuel. George Felos wrote the Death Panel rules. Now I’m sure he’s helping propagandize that murder is a good death. Nope, murder is still murder.
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Life is a fatal illness
My answer was addressed, not to a person who says "There is no God" (a spiritual fool), but to one who says "Maybe there is a supernatural God; but so far, I either have no direct knowledge of him/her/it, or it is not knowable."
So, in my own way, I gave a bit what knowledge I have come across to both the prinary poster and to the readers at large. Then I asked a question that might be considered rhetorical.
Is that approach a problem?
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Also, I haven't grasped what point it is to which you can relate; nor what it is of which you can't approve. Could you please clarify?
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It is predicated on the idea that a life must be comfortable and productive in order to have worth.
NO! Life is an inalienable gift, no matter the comfort level, and no matter how productive / unproductive that life is!
RWA, fight that thought, fight it hard, because it is symptomatic of a further culture of death and decay. Simply put, cultures that allow just "giving up" on an INDIVIDUAL human life also inevitably show that they "give up" on their culture itself.
It would appear that we have a troll who simply wants to post his garbage and then never make any other responses on the thread.
This is a PRO-LIFE forum, not some agnostic cesspool where you call for removal of pain by killing a person.
I am curious, what does the agnostic in your name refer to? Are you agnostic when it comes to the Almighty? Or are you agnostic about conservatism? Either way, you have all the markings of a troll and I have a feeling your stay here will be short.
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