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Posted on 02/19/2007 8:34:26 AM PST by Coleus
Ummmmm, hi. I woke this morning to find a wrinkle. I would like to partake in your assisted suicide program....No no, please, you cannot talk me out of it. I'm very depressed about this wrinkle. Kill me now!
I hear you. Unfortunately, when laws like this are passed it sets a very dangerous precedent. It then becomes a routine matter for those that do the selection. The SS used to select people for the gas chamber on looks as well as ethnicity.
I look at it another way - for something to be urged or mandated, it first has to be established as a good. The euthanasia forces are on the way with that.
Mrs VS
Looks like it's making a comeback!!
I am afraid that you are correct. Next thing you know we will be poking our fingers and rubbing blood into our cheeks to make us look healthier.
Or, letting our hair grow super long and pulling it really tight to remove any facial wrinkles.
You may be right. I just don't agree that it is inherently immoral or selfish for one to commit suicide. Not that I can imagine many circumstances where it is not a selfish act, as so many suicides result in someone being traumatised by finding the body, and it invariably causes great distress to family and friends.
I do see the slippery slope from permitting assisted suicide, to encouraging it for some, to actually mandating it, ie euthanasia. I've read that in the Netherlands many elderly people feel pressured to kill themselves to remove "the burden" on family and friends. It's certainly a complicated issue. I can certainly imagine circumstances where I might not want to go on living. If I couldn't do it myself, then what?
Or, letting our hair grow super long and pulling it really tight to remove any facial wrinkles.....
Oh my, I feel a headache coming on!
These folks would say God does I believe.
I would suggest that the opposite viewpoint, that my person belongs to "society", is the radical one.
I would concur in that.
If society owns me, than they can just as easily decide I should be dead as they can insist that I stay alive.
That's why we've got to be constantly on guard against anyone who says that you don't own yourself.
L
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