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Actor Hugh Grant: assisted suicide campaigner a ‘tremendous force for good’
LifeSiteNews ^ | 6/6/11 | Rebecca Millette

Posted on 06/06/2011 3:52:08 PM PDT by wagglebee

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Richard Hawkes, Chief Executive of Scope, said, “Our survey findings confirm that concerns about legalizing assisted suicide are not just held by a minority, but by a substantial majority of those this law would affect.”

That's because, regardless of ideology, most people do not want to one day be killed just for the sake of convenience.

1 posted on 06/06/2011 3:52:13 PM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 06/06/2011 3:53:58 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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3 posted on 06/06/2011 3:56:49 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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My impression is that carbon monoxide poisoning is a pretty painless way to go, and fairly easy to accomplish at home, isn't it? Don't you just pass out and never wake up? Probably don't need a doctor to pull that one off.
4 posted on 06/06/2011 3:57:12 PM PDT by Huck (The Antifederalists were right.)
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“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20)


5 posted on 06/06/2011 3:59:06 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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Hmmm ... Hugh Grant ... assisted suicide campaigner ... "a tremendous force for good" ...

I guess we know who Hugh's been getting his career advice from lately.

6 posted on 06/06/2011 4:00:00 PM PDT by x
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Grant aka whorebait is a patron of steet prostitutes as well.... Bust busy busy.....


7 posted on 06/06/2011 4:00:34 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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An endorsement from Hugh Grant, who took up with a street walker when he had Elizabeth Hurley at home, is not exactly an endorsement.


8 posted on 06/06/2011 4:02:39 PM PDT by MeganC (NO WAR FOR OIL! ........except when a Democrat's in charge.)
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"Goes to judgement, your honor. He has none."


9 posted on 06/06/2011 4:03:37 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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Relatively young and healthy Hugh Grant is all for murdering old and sick people, but the sick and elderly people are against their being murdered.

Get a clue, Hugh. You’re an actor. Stop trying to govern when no one would elect you dog catcher.


10 posted on 06/06/2011 4:04:08 PM PDT by TheOldLady (Freepmail me to get on or off the ZOT Lightning ping list.)
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Wow! This mean old broad and Kevorkian went out at the same time together! I can’t wait to hear reports from the pearly gates.


11 posted on 06/06/2011 4:05:14 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (FR haters of Sarah Palin are wearing me out)
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I will admit that I was once forced to sit through a Hugh Grant movie, and frankly, suicide did not seem an entirely unreasonable option at the time....


12 posted on 06/06/2011 4:07:38 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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Mr Grant is paid to act rather than think. This is fortunate, because he does not give good value in the latter department.


13 posted on 06/06/2011 4:10:25 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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While I am no fan of assisted suicide, my father died of pancreatic cancer. His last few months were no picnic and I would not wish that on anyone. So I can understand it. But my main opposition does come from the slippery slope assisted suicide creates. How long will it be before “i can't stand the pain” turns into “I can't stand him, he is a pain””?
14 posted on 06/06/2011 4:11:49 PM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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I’m always concerned when we write a law for a very small group of people that could potentially affect a much larger group of people in a negative way.


15 posted on 06/06/2011 4:12:04 PM PDT by brytlea (Someone the other day said I'm not a nice person. How did they know?)
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I am sort of reminded of:

“God is dead” — Nietzsche, 1882.

“Nietzsche is dead” — God, 1900.


16 posted on 06/06/2011 4:15:49 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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>>While I am no fan of assisted suicide, my father died of pancreatic cancer. His last few months were no picnic and I would not wish that on anyone. So I can understand it. But my main opposition does come from the slippery slope assisted suicide creates. How long will it be before “i can’t stand the pain” turns into “I can’t stand him, he is a pain””? <<

It is tough.

But in the long view, each of us owns our life and our duty to sustain it. That is not given to the State nor any other entity outside of our individual conscience.


17 posted on 06/06/2011 4:18:38 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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I'm for it.

But you knew that.

18 posted on 06/06/2011 4:22:26 PM PDT by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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My mother died 6 months after a stroke left her incapacitated. My Dad refused to pull the plug; my brothers and their wives were going ballistic. I have gone back and forth on the issue in my mind ever since. M. Scott Peck, author of “The Road Less Travelled” makes a heck of a case against assisted suicide in his book “Denial of the Soul”. He believes that with proper palliative care during the end of life, a person should, for the sake of their soul, live out that life to its natural end. I am inclined to agree. Sometimes it is not pretty but he maintains that sometimes suffering is essential for spiritual growth. We all like everything to be made neat and pretty; especially those things (like illness and death). We don’t want to face the reality of suffering; we don’t want to have to wipe the faces (and other parts) of our loved ones and console them as they wait for the pain meds to kick in. I am guessing we are denying ourselves as much or more than we are denying them by “putting them out of their pain” with a shot of too much medicine. But who am I to say?


19 posted on 06/06/2011 5:20:57 PM PDT by flyingtabby
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Mr Grant is paid to act rather than think. This is fortunate, because he does not give good value in the latter department.

Or the former.

20 posted on 06/06/2011 5:22:15 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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