[sweetliberty]

"You would be more credible if you offered up arguments that weren't 100% emotion driven."

Okay, the simple version: it is WRONG to KILL a person, no matter who you are or for what reason. Starvation and dehydration is killing. Food is NOT medical treatment. We can't starve and dehydrate animals nor criminals on death row because it is considered cruel. Why should it be acceptable to starve a disabled person who is neither dying and who has committed no crime?

[viaveritasvita]

Couldn't have said it better myself, kiddo! Bring up the issue of assisted suicide, and we suddenly are transported to Euthanasia World, an idealized land where euthanasia's dark side is conveniently ignored. In Euthanasia World, money is never an issue, doctors make house calls, no one is ever abandoned or coerced, and every "death with dignity" is freely and carefully chosen just before natural death occurs and there is no other way to relieve unbearable suffering. In fact, legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia would take place in the context of a harsher real world of abuse and neglect of the elderly, family dysfunction, relatives' desiring to inherit property or collect on fat life insurance policies, and subtle pressures on the ill, disabled, or elderly to cease being a burden ("Gee Grandma, because of the nursing home bills, we can't send little Timmy to college")...Euthanasia World isn't the real world. ~ Wesley J. Smith

full article here http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/smith200310171003.asp

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