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To: wagglebee
And a heart transplant is not playing God ?

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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8 posted on 03/15/2008 12:34:19 PM PDT by cmet
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To: cmet

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.


13 posted on 03/15/2008 12:51:55 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: cmet
And a heart transplant is not playing God ?

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'?

16 posted on 03/15/2008 1:16:42 PM PDT by Swordfished
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To: cmet
Causing death is not "playing God" -- it's failing to play human.

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.

18 posted on 03/15/2008 1:21:58 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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