[epow]

As for me, my right to die, is MY right and does not belong to the state, the church or the courts

You have no right to set the time you die, that's suicide. The church recognizes suicide as sin, and the state recognizes it as a crime.

God is the only one who has the right to decide when anyone dies. He has delegated that authority to legitimate governments in a few specified circumstances such as punishment for murder or in defense of another life or lives, but he has not given you or me authority to end our lives at our discretion. That principle was understood, if not always obeyed, in all Western/Christian cultures until recently when men decided their personal "rights" supercede God's authority.

[Theodore R.]

Good point, we do not therefore have the "right to die." That is the decision of the Almighty. Too bad, Americans cannot understand such a simple concept. They try to complicate everything with what "they want" and "what somebody else may want," etc.

[PeyersPatches]

"The church recognizes suicide as sin, and the state recognizes it as a crime."

Figures, does it? The gov't would recognize suicide as a "crime"....the same gov't that recognizes starvation/dehydration as "humane" to humans and "inhumane" to dogs and cats....

And the dems want more government....ack