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To: Olog-hai

Not everyone believes in God - and even some who do (though perhaps not of your particular faith) believe that they should have the right to make a self-chosen exit when facing a terminal diagnosis and unbearable pain.

I admit that it’s a very ‘slippery slope’ to codify something like this; but I’m not going to judge someone very old and very ill for taking that way out.


13 posted on 07/13/2022 7:42:39 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

That’s an argument from the left.


14 posted on 07/13/2022 7:44:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Jamestown1630
I admit that it’s a very ‘slippery slope’ to codify something like this; but...

You bet it is. When society embraces “the right to die”, it will inevitably become “the obligation to die” After that, we’re into Soylent Green territory.

16 posted on 07/13/2022 7:50:17 PM PDT by fidelis (Behold, the Cross of the Lord! Begone, all evil powers! The Lion of the tribe of Judah rules!)
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To: Jamestown1630

Apparently Injun culture had very oldsters just go out to succumb to the elements as a regular form of business.


22 posted on 07/13/2022 8:04:00 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Jamestown1630

Sister had a hard going out - because of laws regarding giving patients seditives people suffer more than they need to. Now that you might not get medical help to relief ones misery it raises a lot of questions how much one should suffer especially over a long haul when you no longer have even the ability to control your thoughts - your personality, your body functions, and your own self awarenesss is all gone.

I question what I never did before - once you see a family member cease to have any characterists of a person you will question, and the medical help is unwilling to relieve that misery because of laws...somethings wrong in our society...very wrong.


55 posted on 07/13/2022 10:06:27 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: Jamestown1630
Keep the medical industry and the State out of assisted suicide.
Get a family member/friend to set up the wetwork; plenty of ways to physically and privately to personally “make that choice” even if the person is incapacitated.
92 posted on 07/14/2022 9:19:38 AM PDT by rollo tomasi
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