Posted on 12/10/2008 4:53:02 PM PST by GOPGuide
No, it’s more than “a matter of conscience.”
It’s immoral.
It’s criminal in most places.
“Its immoral.
Its criminal in most places.”
It’s British!
First they came for the unborn, now the aged...who’s next? Handicapped, mentally ill, depressed? One thing’s for sure, prisoners jailed for murder will be last.
Yeah, right? Can these brits possibly kill themselves off any quicker? Everyday there is some new story of just how much they’re losing it over there.
“First they came for the unborn, now the aged...whos next? Handicapped, mentally ill, depressed? One things for sure, prisoners jailed for murder will be last.”
Can you “socialized medicine?”
Well, after 6 months in bed a fast way out was starting to look good to me. I won’t pass judgement on this issue.
Not everybody has supportive relatives. When this is first discovered they should be kept away from the patient.
By Mr. Brown’s logic killing a moslem is just assisted suicide, since the muzz think suicide bombings, etc. are just dandy. Sounds like Mr. Brown would support an open season on the muzz.
Ping...
You have hit the nail on the head. What good is a conscience if it is bad? None. Thanks to the moral morons running the education system.
My father died of a heart attack in his 50’s, while out on his own excercising.
His father died of stomach cancer over the course of two or three years.
How would you rather go?
Doc says, OK, the good news is, you’ve got a a few years left. The bad news is, you’re going to be sick and in pain the whole time. Who are we to say that that you shouldn’t have the ability to check yourself out? I’m not even talking about people who are irrational. At some point, suicide can be a rational choice (depending on your beliefs about the nature of God and the universe).
I think a rational person can decide to die. Heroes do it for others. The terminally ill can do it for themselves. There are people who say doctors can’t help them because they swore to “do no harm”, but if a patient asks you to end their suffering, I don’t think that qualifies as harm.
For people on the Right who say that it does, I think there’s two political Rights, the one that says people need to make their own private decisions free of government intervention, and the one that says that people should do what “conservatives” want them to.
As an added bonus, the terminally ill old person who elects to die costs me (a tax payer) less than the terminally ill old person who demands that they get the most expensive care possible to keep them alive in a hospital bed for another day, or month, or year. I see a clear line between allow doctor-assisted-suicide and requiring it. I also don’t think dying is the worst possible thing. Keeping your life at any cost (for lifes own sake) can cost a lot.
More like ghoulish egotism to me.
Im wondering do people here think of suicide as a crime. Say I kill myself with no help. Would that be a crime
I can think of some people I would like to help in that way, but my conscience wouldn’t allow it. Unfortunately, I am certain that there are others who would enjoy assisting me similarly and I don’t really trust theirs. It would probably be best if that decision were not left up to the individual.
Megadittos to your post.
But is it really fair to defer that kind of decision to doctors?
I personally would say that it is, but that is a function of my religious sensibilities. Man is made in God’s image, if you kill yourself you are destroying that image. Besides, to kill oneself means that you have given up all hope, and there is always hope.
A counterargument often put forward is that “its my life, surely I can choose to end it”, but I would argue that your life is not your own. Life is a gift that is given to you, to end it implies a despisement of that gift.
the your life is not your own statement I dont agree with. You may or may not have been given your life as a gift, but you do in fact own your own life. That argument sets up all kinds of stuff about well...my God says you should do this with you life...or I can enslave you because you dont own your own life.
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