[wideawake]

My husband furiously quashed that. “It’s my right, as a husband and a father, to die for my family. Period.”

He wasn't dying for his family - he was dying just to die.

His living family at that moment was his wife and his other child, and he was hurting them by running into that fire, not helping.

While I acknowledge that this man, and also your husband, may allow their emotions to prevail over their better judgement, for your sake and his family's sake it's good that an observer with better judgment is sometimes able to intervene.

[Ancesthntr]

His living family at that moment was his wife and his other child, and he was hurting them by running into that fire, not helping.

While I acknowledge that this man, and also your husband, may allow their emotions to prevail over their better judgement, for your sake and his family's sake it's good that an observer with better judgment is sometimes able to intervene.

None of us commenting on this, here on this thread, were there, so none of us know EXACTLY the circumstances. It may well be that the officer did the right thing, and it may well be that he did the wrong thing. We here cannot judge that, as you have. However, I do not believe that in a free society the State should be taking choices like this away from people. We have the right to be wrong, and to bear the consequences thereof.

[PapaBear3625]

He wasn't dying for his family - he was dying just to die. His living family at that moment was his wife and his other child, and he was hurting them by running into that fire, not helping. While I acknowledge that this man, and also your husband, may allow their emotions to prevail over their better judgement, for your sake and his family's sake it's good that an observer with better judgment is sometimes able to intervene.

My position would be "My life is MY property, to be expended in whatever manner I choose".