Once a society decides that some of its members have a life of such low quality that it is acceptable for doctors to kill them, and once these patientsmany of whom already feel like burdenslearn that they can save lives by their suicides, the seductive pull of asking for euthanasia/organ harvesting could reach gravitational strength. We have entered exceedingly dangerous territory, made the more treacherous by doctors and bioethicists validating the ideas that dead is better than disabled and approvingly recounting how patients can be viewed as a natural resource. He nails it here.
1 posted on
04/03/2011 9:53:49 AM PDT by
wagglebee
To: cgk; Coleus; cpforlife.org; narses; Salvation; 8mmMauser
Pro-Life Ping
2 posted on
04/03/2011 9:55:38 AM PDT by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: 185JHP; 230FMJ; AKA Elena; Albion Wilde; Aleighanne; Alexander Rubin; Amos the Prophet; ...
3 posted on
04/03/2011 9:56:37 AM PDT by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
In 1966, a young man who was imprisoned for murder donated a kidney to someone in Colorado Medical Center hospital. His way of making amends indirectly via an act of service and sacrifice.
Could prisoners of violent crimes be harvested, the proceeds being used to support widows and orphans they created? Or to offset the expense of trying and incarcerating them? Especially in cases where the death penalty has been called for.
These questions are rhetorical, I can see the slippery-slope here too, but if innocent law-abiding human beings are going to be used for spare parts, why not those guilty of murder, rape etc.?
To: wagglebee
Liberals deserve your body parts. They are smarter, after all.
5 posted on
04/03/2011 10:22:19 AM PDT by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: wagglebee
Afraid when Obummer care is in full swing this will be common and accepted by our medical community. The government board will decide whose life will be ended and when for organ harvests. There will be none of this feel good I’m helping someone else attitude. Heaven help us.
6 posted on
04/03/2011 10:28:34 AM PDT by
Guardian Sebastian
(All I needed to know about Islam I learned on 9-11.)
To: All
7 posted on
04/03/2011 10:43:18 AM PDT by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
Link to Wiki article on Niven's 1967 short story
"Jigsaw Man".WARNING: plot spoiler.
9 posted on
04/03/2011 11:00:13 AM PDT by
magslinger
(What Would Stephen Decatur Do?)
To: wagglebee
It all starts with abortion....someone who can kill a baby as a “choice”...can kill anyone..for any reason...
11 posted on
04/03/2011 11:04:53 AM PDT by
Crim
To: wagglebee; All
We have seen this before in Europe in the thirties in acountry run by a certain Austrin doofus with delusions of being god. This is not going to end well of that you can be assured.
14 posted on
04/03/2011 11:40:37 AM PDT by
Nebr FAL owner
(.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
To: wagglebee; All
We have seen this before in Europe in the thirties in acountry run by a certain Austrin doofus with delusions of being god. This is not going to end well of that you can be assured.
15 posted on
04/03/2011 11:42:10 AM PDT by
Nebr FAL owner
(.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
To: wagglebee
I’m currently looking at 1-2 years of useful and interesting consciousness followed by another 2 years of drooling vegetative dependency and then death from an incurable neurological disorder. This has rather a lot of appeal to me. I would love to spare my relatives the horror of watching me drool insensate.
regards,
17 posted on
04/03/2011 12:24:06 PM PDT by
Mycroft Holmes
(Returned for regrooving...)
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