[wagglebee]

Transforming assisted suicide from a crime into a medical treatment clearly is intended to lead to death on demand. Oregon's law should be recognized for what it is – a deadly Trojan Horse.

Very true. EVERYTHING the culture of death does is part of a long-term agenda.

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[appleharvey]

I think that liberals just want to remove as many of us as quickly as possible, no matter what the health issue is. Why is it though, that they hold candlelight vigils against the death penalty for cold blooded killers?

[mngran2]

When my father was dying from cancer, I worried there might come a day when his pain was so intolerable, his agony so great and his end so near and certain that he would ask someone (me) to help his hasten his end. Thankfully, it never came to that, but I would have helped him if he had asked and if I believed he were making that request with a sound mind.

Remember in the old cowboy movies when a cowboy got shot in the gut, he’d always beg his friends to shoot him in the head so he didn’t have to suffer days of agonizing pain only to die in the end anyway?

It is just too simplistic to say we must never honor someone’s wishes to hasten the inevitable.

[BykrBayb]

In the 2008 book, Giving Death a Helping Hand, Margaret Battin (the author of the study described above) wrote that she doesn't believe assisted suicide should be "safe, legal and rare." Rather, she said it should be available, "as a preemptively prudent, significant, culminative experience."

"Preemptively prudent?" Before attempting anything else, like, oh for example, treatment? Why bother curing the disease, when you can just claim the patient is the disease, and euthanasia is the cure?

[hinckley buzzard]

The real answer to the question is simple. Oregon already has euthanasia, de facto, while the gubbermint looks the other way. Same thing happened in the Netherlands years ago. It's called the slippery slope and Oregon is halfway down it. The next step, which already occurs in Europe, is "nonconsensual euthanasia," ie, killing off the inconvenient oldsters with out their knowledge or consent.

All this talk about bills and laws and such is mere window dressing.