Posted on 03/15/2008 12:07:25 PM PDT by wagglebee
Chantal Sebire knows she's forcing people to make an agonizing decision, but agony is something she knows far too much about. The 52- year-old Dijon schoolteacher suffers from a rare disease that has left her disfigured by facial tumors, which will also damage her brain over time and eventually kill her. Her demand that French political leaders loosen laws against euthanasia has been rebuffed, so Sebire now awaits a judge's decision on whether existing legislation allows doctors to assist her in ending her pain-racked life. "I no longer accept this enduring pain, and this protruding eye that nothing can be done about," Sebire told RTL radio, referring to ravages the tumors are causing her. "I want to go out celebrating, surrounded by my children, friends, and doctors before I'm put to sleep definitively at dawn."
Whether the mother of three gets to do that in her French home is in the hands of a Dijon judge, who is set to hand down his decision Monday. Sebire's lawyers argue that current laws pertaining to terminal patients can be interpreted to allow active euthanasia. The political consequences of that ruling will be as grave as Sebire's vital stake in it. Members of France's center-right government have rejected Sebire's appeal in virtual unison, arguing that existing legislation, laid down in 2005, allows families and doctors of terminal patients to withhold life-sustaining treatment, but in no way permits active measures to provoke death. Sebire and her backers retort that preventing her from getting medical assistance to end her life swiftly and painlessly ensures months or years of additional torment from pain. Her death will come, they say, after a long coma that will reduce her to being nothing but an inanimate burden on her family.
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Actually, the ONLY thing it interferes with is her selfish desire to play God.
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Just come to Oregon.
If this person hates her life so much, she should just find a way to end it. That's wrong too, and she'll have to stand before God and tell Him why she had so little faith in His plan for her. But that's only one soul that may have to pay a price.
I think she's afraid of what she's contemplating, and she's looking for society to justify her action. Bad news: it's not society that will sit in judgment.
Some government officials have suggested that while the judge will likely reject her case on Monday, it may be possible for her to be hospitalized and put into an artificial coma without being fed until she dies. That passive form of euthanasia, Sebire objected, was “neither dignified, humane, or respectful of me or my children.”
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But it was all those wonderful attributes when the patient was Terry Schiavo
Just ask her loving husband, Michael and his compassionate lawyer...
In fact, they'll do that for you even if you don't ask!
Good idea to mark Nederland (and Belgium and Switzerland) off your "places to visit" list.
Sorry, but there seems to be disconnect with medical assistance. God gave man a brain to develop miraculous cures for all kinds of disease and prolong life, but he can not use his brain to determine when it is time for death?
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Yep, there is no reason for her to force anyone else to go along with her sin.
“Paging Dr. Kevorkian...”
How bad is this woman ? Anyone have any pictures ?
People are really shallow, and think that baggy eyes are reason enough to stay in their house and never come out.
Exactly. And it’s not a very “conservative” position to suggest that the government should be allowed to force people to suffer through years of misery when they want to die. People’s lives belong to themselves, not to the government.
exactly - she’s been used even in her sickness.
Euthanasia and Infanticide were common until about 1400AD. It was outlawed primarily due to Christian influence.
Folks like this try to make us think its a new idea. It was common in the old days. Hitler and Stalin did their best to revive the movement. Today’s liberals are keeping the movement going.
Seems strange that liberals were the ones fighting for the rights of disabled people just 20 years ago. And now the liberals are fighting for the right to murder them.
Sorry, but there seems to be disconnect with medical assistance. God gave man a brain to develop miraculous cures for all kinds of disease and prolong life, but he can not use his brain to determine when it is time for death?
You just killed the 'playing God' fallacy.
Wasn't it Montaigne who said 'that to philosophize is to learn how to die'?
“Exactly. And it’s not a very “conservative” position to suggest that the government should be allowed to force people to suffer through years of misery when they want to die. People’s lives belong to themselves, not to the government.”
Ahh but in most cases it won’t be the people making this decision. Look to Norway as an example. Its up to the doctors as the person is usually incapacitated. Under socialized medicine that doctor must comply with govt funding and care requirements. So in essence it is the govt making the decision.
The movement uses well written articles to draw our sympathy. The real purpose is to eliminate people who do not contribute to society. That is the ultimate goal of this movement.
I like this quote from a man who been disabled since the age of eight with dustonia --- or, as he puts it "a fantastic spastic, creatively endowed with disability":
"Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live." - Neil Marcus
So, my message to Chantile Sabiri: Live, or die. But don't involve others in the corruption of becoming accomplices of death.
It’s just evil.
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It is evil! Those who are promoting the right to die, would soon be pushing for the DUTY to die, and finally state obligated murder.
I call them the Death Eaters!
THIS woman is clearly able to communicate. And when people are so incapacitated that they are not able to communicate, then wishes they previously expressed in writing or by audio recording or other recording method as dictated by disabilities, in front of witnesses, should be followed to the letter. If the wish is “give me a lethal injection if I have been unable to communicate for a week”, then that’s what should happen. The government DOES NOT OWN PEOPLE. Many innocent people who want to have their lives ended quickly and painlessly are forced to suffer for years against their wills.
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