The essential difference between the conservative and liberal positions on euthanasia is that conservatives believe in the sanctity of life while the liberals believe that an unhappy life is not worth living.
Liberals will point out that that no one forces people to choose euthanasia and that individuals should be empowered to make that decision themselves. Conservatives fear that the right to die will eventually become the responsibility to die. This is a reasonable concern, but the obvious solution is proper legislation to insure euthanasia isn’t misused rather than outright prohibition.
As a pro lifer, why do you feel it necessary to use the power of the state to stop assisted suicide? How did Dr. Kevorkian’s work harm you or society at large? Was it really necessary that he go to jail for helping people who wanted to die?
I’d honestly like to know.
Because I believe in the sanctity of life, from conception until natural death.
How did Dr. Kevorkian’s work harm you or society at large? Was it really necessary that he go to jail for helping people who wanted to die?
He killed well over 100 people and that is a crime, REGARDLESS of anyone's wishes. And there is a lot of evidence suggesting that many of these people were simply depressed and quite possibly not stable enough to express their wishes.
Are you aware of the role depression plays in many assisted suicide decisions? Are you aware that a climically depressed patient is non compis mentis? Does respect for freedom and the rule of law include setting things up so that the mentally incompetent make momentous and irreversible decisions?
Take Phyllis Diller as an example. If assisted suicide were legal, she would have been Kevorked. Instead, she was treated for depression and is still happy and working at the age of 90. Would it have been better for her to be killed?
How did Dr. Kevorkian’s work harm you or society at large?
If people want to kill themselves they should kill themselves, and not screw around with the legal and medical systems that are supposed to preserve freedom and health for myself and my descendants.
Was it really necessary that he go to jail for helping people who wanted to die?
It was necessary for a guy who broke the law over a hundred times to do time, especially when the law involved killing his fellow human beings. You want assisted suicide, pass laws. Was it really necessary that he go to jail for helping people who wanted to die?