You might consider reading the Pope and Vatican on this subject. They seem to argue that as suicide is wrong then asking what someone's wishes are is also wrong. It would be wrong to choose death.
First of all, please reread my #52 and who I was responding to. I believe we're on the same side (unless you're being sarcastic here :-). Sorry for any misunderstanding caused by my sarcasm/sloppy way of responding to him.
Second, I tend to lean, if anything, toward the Pope's stand (which, I gather, means I'm even more "pro-life" in this sense than most Freepers). I'm very uncomfortable with this seemingly-widespread idea that it's obvious that a person should be killed if they wrote down on a piece of paper 10 years ago that they "would want" to be killed in some hypothetical circumstance that appears to be analogous. In other words I'm not even very comfortable with the "living will" concept. I certainly understand and don't object to the impulse to end suffering when one is talking about a terminal case in great pain, such as a cancer patient with only a couple weeks to live who is suffering horribly. But to institutionalize and legitimize killing in cases that aren't up against that sort of margin? I just don't know. There is a very dangerous slippery slope there and I think we're seeing it here.
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