Our bodies are not our own. Try to sell an organ.
That’s the ‘philosophy’. Civil liberties above all!
This absolutism implies that depressed patients should be assisted to commit suicide when they make that decision. Release mentally ill patients to roam naked in the middle of winter.
And the source of our civil liberties??? ‘they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights... to LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’
You posit the difficult scenario.
I would like you to have that choice, and for you and all around you to value your life as you weigh that decision.
But if we are not careful, that won’t be your choice.
You avoided commenting on the slippery slope that Europe shows us. Government won’t care about your choice, government cares about you as a drain on health care resources. Without respect for life, resulting from judeo-christian heritage, you will become a burden.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGNhZGJkYjRmYWE4Y2UwODIxOGU5Y2RmNzg0YTE3ZTA=
These have demonstrated a disturbingly high incidence of euthanasia being carried out without the patient’s explicit request and an equally disturbing failure by medical professionals to report euthanasia cases to the proper regulatory authority.”(Emphasis added)
“private” ~ we are social animals. There is no “private” death with such a creature.