Posted on 06/06/2011 3:52:08 PM PDT by wagglebee
That's because, regardless of ideology, most people do not want to one day be killed just for the sake of convenience.
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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)
I guess we know who Hugh's been getting his career advice from lately.
Grant aka whorebait is a patron of steet prostitutes as well.... Bust busy busy.....
An endorsement from Hugh Grant, who took up with a street walker when he had Elizabeth Hurley at home, is not exactly an endorsement.
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.
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.
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....
Mr Grant is paid to act rather than think. This is fortunate, because he does not give good value in the latter department.
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.
I am sort of reminded of:
“God is dead” — Nietzsche, 1882.
“Nietzsche is dead” — God, 1900.
>>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.
But you knew that.
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?
Or the former.
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