Posted on 09/08/2005 7:38:51 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
I remember something like this happening in Germany about 60 years ago. ping to Moral Absolutes list
What a sad worled we live in when we kill our most helpless. Why don't people realize taht we are all born with a purpose and that God desides our fate, not man?
Sarcasm/off
Just late term abortions. Move along. Nothing to see.
I can't imagine the hell of seeing your child terminally ill, wracked with pain, and dying by inches.
There's an old saying- "Tend the wounded, heal the sick, but let the dying spirit go."
I say, give someone who is dying enough pain medication to make them comfortable. At some point, the amount of medication needed to ease their pain will stop their heart. Is that murder?
You mean, like Terri?
No, but if you intentionally hasten the death it is.
Mrs VS
I'll bet there is one subset of sick children that are not affected: children of Dutch doctors.
She was starved to death- and as far as I could tell, not in any pain (before they starved her, anyway.) That was murder, not euthanasia, despite what the Left claims.
She wasn't dying fast enough (at all, actually) to suit her husband- that was the problem.
Ping to more of Hitlers plans, still alive and active.
Human Life, no matter what 'quality' someone chooses to say it has, is inherently valuable because it was given to us by our Creator. We are his handiwork, and He is truly the author of our days. There is no way to stop the flood once you decide it's ok for this one to go...the limits will always be pushed because of convenience. Look at abortion in our own country. When we let the dying spirit go, we should perhaps be holding the hand of the earthly body, not pushing it (drugging it) away. *I live in one of the few (I believe there are two) states that allow Euthanasia. As tin foily as it may sound, the forces behind it are always evil.*
Thanks - I'll be pinging this out tomorrow. I've been AWOL on this ping list; all my FR attention was riveted on the hurricane and its aftermath.
I do appreciate being alerted to relevant articles! If you ever ping me to one and I don't respond, you can always try me again, sometimes things get lost on my comments page because it only holds 20, which is WAY too few.
Grrr.
May the Lord have mercy!
"In Holland, and Belgium, the very old, and the very sick fear the trip to the hospital- because they may be euthanized against their will."
Crosslinking:
You saw what Katrina did to New Orleans. God could do that to you too with a tsunami.
I would say in cases like this there should hardly any ethical objection to using controversial medications like Vioxx, as well as the classic opiates. You know it's not like they were about to die....
Maybe, maybe not.
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