"If I had a choice, I would have let him go with dignity."
He apparently made his own choice. Why should yours have outweighed his, in regards to how his life would end?
Let's do it one better and ask, shouldn't the doctor get to decide how your family members die? Or the insurance company? Or the goverment? I suggest it's clear that there's little middle ground, either we end up dying privately, or the state becomes involved and death is "regulated." Free Republic?
Here's this from your about page. I think it's clear what kind of "conservative" you are:
"Just as conservatism evolved away from the isolationist, business-versus-labor model — leaving Pat Buchanan and his ilk floundering about in the political wilderness like beached whales — so too is conservatism evolving apace away from the small-government, libertarian model so dear to the hearts of Rush Limbaugh and his acolytes. Bush has recognized this and has parlayed it into two presidential terms. However, if movement conservatives start an ideological war withing the GOP, everything which Ronald Reagan and those who believe as he did is in danger of being wrecked. The my-way-or-the-highway conservatives are fast becoming the mirror images of the lunatic-fringe Democrats from moveon.org. If the GOP is driven to the right, the Reagan Democrats who are socially conservative but fiscally liberal will be alienated and will rejoin the Democrats."
So if Republicans representatives in goverment start doing what they said they'd do to get elected, that would be a rightward shift, and an end to conservatism, as you define it? I thought "right" and "conservative," labels applied by our political opponents, were synonymous?
You might be correct, in the sense of there not being just enough broad support for the fusionist model, and some kinds of voters can be turned off. But I suggest that the greater concern is losing the base with your kind of politics. It's not what got Bush elected for two terms, it was an understanding that he'd get a moderate amount of the conservative agenda through. Now we realise that RINOs like you want to go in the other direction. Deliberately. And this "dying with dignity" crap is just more of it.
It's not about politics. It's about TRUTH. It's about belief in an omnipotent Creator.
Politics, and the way it is practiced today is one of the main causes of our moral decline. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Our country's founding documents, the basis for who we are as a nation recognize this truth. To forget it, to take the God-given right granted to the people and to try to usurp those powers which are rightly God's can lead only to our eventual death.
This is what Conservatism is all about.