Oh please. While I appreciate your desire to discuss this, it does no good to try and begin the discussion with a bad premise.
If one wants to end their life badly enough one can. Period.
Now it might take some guile for example, if one is terminal and cannot move or be ambulatory. This is not rocket science. But don’t paint “terminal” patients as unable to move about or fend for themselves. Why the hell is it almost impossible to kill yourself if your terminal? Are you assuming that a terminal person can’t walk about or get out of bed? I daresay that’s not often the case until perhaps the last hours or days.
People kill themselves in all manner of ways and again, I state firmly, if one wants it bad enough, it can be done.
also, if one is terminal and suffering, usually there’s SOMEBODY around who would I dunno, maybe get a gun, a packet of pills.....it’s not impossible and I’ll never buy that argument.
That being said, and you may disagree but I’ll not be cut off from my assertion that in order to make nice men like Doctor Kavorkian legal and not subject to the laws or murder and such, why you’d have to pass a law that euthanasia is perfectly legal. Why on earth any alleged conservative would espouse such a thing, especially knowing about what happened with the abortion mess, is beyond me.
Recall also that several of those nursing home operators who allegedly helped some of the trapped patients to an early death were ALL tried for murder.
You just don’t want that in a decent society and to feel this way is to invite the slippery slope of abortion.
But again, I certainly have no problem with a suffering human ending his or her life. Just don’t ask the government of MY country to make it legal because of your cowardice.
Oh, and this lovely Dr. K...keep defending the creep.
I can see the highways and byways now, filled with happening “Euthanasia parlors”, all occupied with union membered perverts who like to watch people die.
Open your eyeballs and maybe your mind. Think where this all could lead.
Do you mean like when Michael Schiavo ordered a pizza and him and his attorneys sat around and eat the pizza while watching Terri die of starvation?
Your abusive post was insulting.
I have never defended Dr. K...quite the contrary. I also am not infavor of the govt or others deciding who shall live or die. As for the ‘nursing home oeprators” ...you sure don’t have your facts straight on any of that. The nursing home operators just left the patients and will be tried for murder/neglect. Maybe you are thinking about the physician who stayed with sick patients and treated them with pain meds, etc. and was TRIED FOR MURDER...But that’s where this will lead when we don’t discuss these end of life issues. No pain meds!
you just don’t have your facts straight.