First of all, you're the one who wants to bring government in. I want government OUT, allowing physicians and anyone to obtain or give the materials and assistance necessary for patients to sail their own course.
Anyone, especially in the metro of Seattle, can end their life. People do it all the time.
I suppose you were having fun laughing at George Lane, the disabled man who crawled up the Polk County, Tennessee, courthouse steps once for an appearance in a reckless driving case, but was arrested for "failure to appear" when he refused to crawl up to court a second time. "Anyone can climb those stairs. People do it all the time," you mocked, eh?
I suppose you shout at the degeneratively ill, "You'd better off yourself while you can! If you wait until you're too weak to do it yourself, you're stuck!"
I suppose your ghoulish laughter echoes off walls coated with gore from those who had to use a .357 when they couldn't get Seconal...or your haunting mockery carries down hallways, as twisted, cyanide-choked bodies are carried out when more humane methods are blocked.
Maybe in your leftist, state-control-loving mind, these are mere theoreticals, but to some of us, they are real--as concrete as the people (not just some abstract, faceless "lives" in agony) involved.
Every life is precious.
I suppose that's why you want to control them all.
You should be given the Hyperbole Award.
In order for policy to become law the government must be involved, whether on the local or federal level. Once policy is passed, it’s the governments responsibility to oversee the implementation and practice of policy, whether this involves abortion, euthanasia, or gun control, etc....
If an individual decides to take his life, that is his freedom.
“...laughable” What a moronic statement. I don’t even know who George Lane is. You also win the False Equivocation Award. Apples and oranges, my friend. We’re not talking about a man choosing to crawl up stairs and being arrested. We’re talking, or, I’m talking about government setting policy with an ulterior motive and using people and their desperation to do it.
“... your ghoulish laughter echos...”
You’re kidding me, right. What are ya, a drama queen? Humane my ass. Killing yourself, or having someone kill you; it’s all horrible. And while you’re at it, I’ve sat at the bedside of loved ones who were dying. They died with dignity, though not by the assistance of a physician, except to administer relief from pain.
“Maybe in your leftist...” Nice twist. You’re an award winning drama queen and ballerina.
“I suppose that’s why you want to control them.”
You can’t control people in the privacy of their own homes, but you sure can control them when they are in a vegetative state without a voice, eh. Terri Schiavo comes to mind. Or how about that doctor that kill all her patients in New Orleans. Oh, how humane of her, although they did not request death.
Click on a UK news agency and check out all those “humane” killings. How did that work out? Not very well for those patients, but hey, it was humane and loving.
Well, to answer a number of your “cognitive” accusations, let us examine the posts.
“Anyone can climb those stairs. People do it all the time,” you mock, eh?”
And you said, “absolutely no cognitive connection”, eh? I didn’t even post that statement concerning stairs.
Let’s all take a look at Mr. Lane (I wonder if you bothered to ask permission from the family before using Mr. Lane’s story and name).
You accused me, among other things, of being a “leftist” “state-control-loving mind” “degeneratively ill” shouting person. How amusing, considering the fact that you linked to and sited an EDITORIAL from THE NEW YORK TIMES. Here are some gems from the editorial:
“Incredibly, there is a real chance the Supreme Court will side with Tennessee. The courts conservative majority has been on a misguided “federalism” campaign, denying Congress’s power to protect the environment, combat gun violence and discrimination.”
Did you all read that, Freepers? Whose talking about “control” here? And read this insightful fact:
“Mr. Lane who had had minor run-ins with the law before”
Gondring, you have accused me of lacking “cognitive” skills in reading this thread, which is about SUICIDE, and yet you site Mr. Lane’s incident, which is (and pay close attention, FReepers) about ACCESSIBILITY for the DISABLED. I’ll go further in stating that the editorial is using these disabled individuals (as I stated before) to push their own anti-American (remember the “federalism”) agenda.
In closing, I will point out one thing in order to tie, unlike Gondring’s free associating, Mr. Lane’s incident to the thread. Gondring slanderous insinuates that I believe:
“...anyone can commit suicide at will”
If Mr. Lane can crawl up the stairs to the courthouse, he has the ability to commit suicide. So, using Mr. Lane’s, as you took the opportunity to do so in making an irrelevant point, example does not support the thread concerning suicide.
Now, who’s “absolutely” lacking in “cognitive connection”?