What needs to be addressed is whether or not people have a "right to die".
If you think about it for a moment, you can begin to see that we have in part ourselves to blame for this. How many of you here would believe that a "living will" would have been a solution?
I wrote an essay on my blog concerning this - I will report the relevent points I wish to address here ~~
Do we have a "right to die"?
The dangerously seductive arguement that many Americans seem to have unwittingly accepted is that we as individuals have a constitutional "right to die". Simply put, we don't.
Our nation's Supreme Court seems to think that the "right to die" is a liberty protected by the Due Process Clause. It may in fact be a liberty, but it is not a fundamental or natural right. While the Ninth Amendment might seem to imply that we do in fact have additional fundamental or natural rights, what the court fails to recognize is that, it is not with their power to grant us those additional rights. Those fundamental rights are God given rights, natural rights, i.e., rights we possess by nature and not by law. To give an analogy, I have a right to go to Heaven, it is a liberty that I possess and yet the court cannot grant me that right. Likewise, the court cannot grant me the "right to die", only God can, and only when he chooses.
The courts now find themselves in a dilemma now by basing all their current and future judgements for other cases on a mistake made back in 1990 where our court played God and granted a "right" that they actually had no power to grant. The "right to die".
Throughout this recent case, the arguement accepted by the court seems to have centered on "This was Terri's wish." and "This is what Terri would have wanted." Im sure Terri like many of us also wants to go to Heaven.
Very well then, if the court feels that Terri can choose that she does not want to live her life based on her medical condition, then how can the same court deny a person who makes the choice i.e. the liberty that they don't want to live their life as a prisoner, as a drug addict, as a sick person, as a disabled or retarded person, as an only child, or as an ugly person, the list goes on. Surely if the court feels that the "right to die" is a liberty protected by the Due Process Clause then anyone at anytime can take their own life and choose the time of their death.
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Great 'Right to Die' Post, eg.
What a contrast with those who give all they have on behalf of the well being of others?
For...
Sacrifice begets Sacrifice:
MEL's -PASSION- sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085111/posts
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Did you read the pdf?
Wonderfully written and very logical. The simple truth that has been obscured by all of these "rights" is the fact that this "right to die" (which certainly does not necessarily include terminal cases and a person's wish to avoid extraordinary and futile means of life sustenance) is unnatural. Natural law is the foundation for all law that concerns these bandied about terms and "social mores" concerning life at all stages.