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To: wagglebee
if you are considering suicide, you have major depression, and that's true even if you have advanced cancer

Translation: "If you disagree with me, I will pronounce you mentally ill and incapable of making your own decisions, and the government should back me up in forcing you to accept my decisions. And if my decision is to wipe out your life's savings that you were planning on leaving to your grandchildren, and spend all the money keeping you alive when you don't want to be alive, the government will see to it that your money is confiscated and delivered to the institutions that employ me and my co-thinkers. All for your own good, of course."

Needless to say, this is the same sort of rationale that the Soviet government used, when it shipped people off to psychatric "hospitals" against their will. If they expressed disagreement with the Great Communist Cause, then obviously they were mentally ill and had to be locked up for their own good.

57 posted on 12/16/2007 4:50:22 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker

So, you disagree that suicidal thoughts stem from depression and you think that the government somehow invented this in order to control people?


58 posted on 12/16/2007 4:52:57 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: GovernmentShrinker
if you are considering suicide, you have major depression, and that’s true even if you have advanced cancer

Translation: “If you disagree with me, I will pronounce you mentally ill and incapable of making your own decisions, and the government should back me up in forcing you to accept my decisions.

Hmmm...

From one Christian standpoint
I do not own my life
I have a better thing

Stewardship

Suicide from this standpoint is
denial of gift, turning away from stewardship
Or worse, fearing God’s purpose in our appointed task

In my very limited experience (24 years in Neurology)
Suicide is always preceded
by a profound deterioration in Self Love

No exceptions

60 posted on 12/16/2007 5:11:52 PM PST by HangnJudge
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