as long as the person making the decision is sound of mind, I dont see the harm.
Having watch a few people go through this, yeah they may be “alive” but it sure isnt what I would call it...
Having the option and forcing someone are two completely different things, one is completely wrong.
>>as long as the person making the decision is sound of mind, I dont see the harm.<<
I have had some pretty big dust-ups here (up to and including JR telling me to drop it or be banned) about people’s right to end their own life.
My take: The ONE right that every human being has is to end their life if and when they see fit, provided the method of their death does not hurt anyone else.
The State and other busybodies should stay the hell out of any decisions I make with My God.
If we don’t have that basic right then freedom is an illusion.
I am not weighing in on "Yea or Nea" on this, but there is a subtile and dark middle ground. Families can and will put pressure on the elderly to take the option out of convenience, just like abortion.
Making an ungodly decision while of sound mind is always harmful.
Doctors doubling as murderers is never a good idea. Getting the medical profession and the government involved with killing people just because people are old, sick, depressed, in pain, mentally ill or whatever is a known slippery slide to involuntary killings. Happens every place that legalizes “doctor assisted suicide”.
Anyone who wants to commit suicide can easily do it without a doctor or government.
People whine “Well what about (fill in the blank helpless person) who can’t stick head in oven/breathe carbon monoxide in car/shoot themselves/find drugs to OD on/etc? Shouldn’t they be allowed to commit suicide too?”
Answer: Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Plus, stop eating and drinking, especially if you’re already terminally ill, and you’ll go pretty soon. Many terminally ill patients do this normally, towards the end of life. Having been a hospice volunteer, I’ve read about this and seen it.
People who want government and the medical profession involved in killing people need to calibrate their moral compass and adjust their cognitive thinking apparatus.
Having the option and forcing someone are two completely different things, one is completely wrong.
And in every country where doctor assisted suicide is legalized, the voluntary quickly includes involuntary.
And, btw, anyone who wants to can commit suicide without doctors and government getting involved.