What do you think Freepers?
It's an interesting debate.
It’s a slippery slope for sure.
Dr Kevorkian needed a better publicity man.
This isn’t about the right to die. It’s about the right to actively end a life.
I think attempted suicide should be a capital offense and the penalty should be death.
There may be life insurance consequences for such actions. Mileage will vary.
“Motor neuron disease” is likely ALS. Death from that is a miserable experience; a beloved family member of mine died from it in 1984. ALS is a guaranteed death sentence; if someone afflicted with that wants make the decision to end their life on their own terms, then so be it.
A right to die becomes a duty to die.People that want to hang on will be seen as greed, and spending money that their heirs want.
They will be told in a dozen ways to “take the sleeping pill”.
*Assisted suicide* is simple giving someone the right to murder you without consequence.
You have the right to kill yourself.
You have absolutely NO right to force someone else to be involved.
Asking someone else to kill you is the height of selfishness.
Do your own dirty work.
Do not force that on someone else.
I object to anyone insisting they have a right to have someone else make them die.
It is negative for society and the person(s) killing you.
Kill yourself by yourself if you must. Leave the rest of us alone. And don’t redefine the medical profession. They are already killing babies and mutilating healthy reproductive systems, sometimes in kids. They don’t need to start killing adults.
Everyone has a right to die. Most of the time, the issue is fighting to live when that is not possible.
No doctor has ever been convicted of a crime for administering a lethal dose of morphine to a dying person whose suffering cannot be alleviated otherwise. Occasionally, in the old days, a DA running for re-election in a (formerly) Catholic city or state could secure an indictment, but even that was exceedingly rare. Now that there are no more Catholic cities or states, this doesn’t happen any more.
Yes, there are sociopaths like Kevorkian who are rightly in prison, but he was killing healthy people.
No one has a right to make a doctor kill them.
In the gray zone? Those who say, don’t know, and those who know, don’t say.
He’s afraid to commit suicide. He wants a society that gets others to murder instead.