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To: wagglebee

Exactly. Christians have always believed that suicide is a deadly sin, because it is self-murder and because it leaves little or no time to repent. It is the sin of despair, a refusal of God’s grace and His gift of life.

Others may believe differently. If so, no one can stop them from killing themselves in most cases. But there is something hellishly selfish about people who want to corrupt the entire medical establishment and the health industry, make doctors and nurses into killers and hospitals into killing grounds, just so they can die a little more comfortably.

What do they care if they take thousands or millions of innocent people along with them? After all, they will be safely and comfortably dead—won’t they?

As Louis XIV callously said, “Apres moi, le deluge.” I’ll get what I want, and who cares what happens afterward?


5 posted on 10/18/2007 8:32:20 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero
You're exactly right. Some 30,000 Americans commit suicide every year, without manipulatively dragging our major medical, legal, and political structures into it for "assistance" or "permission."

It's a wicked and/or a pathetic thing to commit suicide "freelance" --- only God can judge in the case of the clinically depressed or otherwise impaired. But that doesn't even compare to the rotten evil of "legal" or "assisted" suicide where you corrupt the major institutions of society as your accomplices.

Doctors, nurses, and hospice workers should not be pulled into the picture as accessories to the deed, because they are, and shoule be, unalterably committed to the patient's health: and nobody is healthier dead. Lawyers, judges, and politicians should not be implicated in suicide because they're supposed to be dedicated to our rights and liberties, and death effectively snuffs ALL rights and all liberties.

I have never quite understood why those would-be suicides who say their #1 value is personal autonomy, don't just do it --- like those other 30,000 self-respectng autonomous suicides* --- and leave the rest of us out of it.

* (Hoping the irony here is apparent.)

6 posted on 10/18/2007 8:52:44 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Cordially.)
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