"Assisted suicide" has NEVER been anything other than euthanasia renamed.
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The thing that gets me is that it’s perfectly possible to kill yourself without the assistance of a dcotor. People have been doing it for a LONG time.
To me it’s selfish. If a person is in pain, dying anyway within six months why not let them end their suffering? The hospitals are raking in tons of money keeping that person alive. If an individual wants to end their suffering they should be allowed to do so. Where do others get off telling them they have to continue in their pain? Oregon has had this law for years and it works.
It is a persons individual right to control what they want. If we’re allowed to have an abortion by law then why not a law here in Washington to end our suffering?
This is my own opinion.
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Here in Washington ads with Martin Sheen have been running in opposition to Prop 1000. Sheen seems to have split from the ‘killing for convenience’ crowd. I voted against it anyway-with Mr. Sheen’s recommendation. It’s been a strange year.
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Aside from the main issue of morality, assisted suicide is a slippery slope which eventually and most certainly leads to euthanasia. Who would ever have believed when abortion was first legalized we’d someday be debating whether babies should be partially born then killed.
When you get the AMA to agree to give pain killing drugs to dying patients at the manufacturers cost and stop this crap about worrying they will become addicted to the pills, that’s when I will agree to Say No to Assisted Suicide. Until then, don’t even bother to post the articles.
>>Of the patients involved, 26 percent were independently diagnosed with depression. they weren’t treated — giving credence to the notion that assisted suicide is a cure looking for a problem.<<
What, you expect that someone who is in such serious condition that they have agreed to assisted suicide to become cheerful? Ignorance abounds.
This article is 3/4 about the money that the doctors and terminal care givers will lose and 1/4 about compassion for the dying.
I already did (vote “no” that is).
Husband, mom, son, and myself have already sent in out ballots with a big “no” vote.
I’m a former GOP precinct county chair for Washington State. No big deal.
The State, and the church and the courts need to get out of end of life decisions. These tough calls, which have been made for thousands of years, are family decisions. The state has no say how my family lives or dies. It’s between my family and me....between God and my family...not between the state bureaucracy and me. Butt out State of Washington, it’s not your call.
Its not like the Libterdlies will stop voting if they kill themselves...
So whats the point in allowing them to kill themselves?