I thank God that ‘right-to-die’ legislation was soundly defeated in the UK parliament.
that all human life is sacred from conception to natural death,
Therein lies the rub: we do not experience natural death so much. Its more likely that the individual will eventually defeat the life sustaining systems folks find themselves hooked up to.
That I submit is NOT natural death. In a lot of cases its a cruel torture preventing someone from dying.
Too many old people are kept alive and I would submit to you, in a kind of misery, not at their behest but to assuage the survivors.
My wife’s poor mother barely has a glimmer of self, has no memory of 30seconds ago is incontinent and wheelchair bound. She is a poster child of the kind of fate that too many suffer. This is dignity? The poor woman would be so embarrassed and humiliated if she was aware.
The family in this case has decided to withold several medications that may allow her to pass when the Lord calls.
It is a real sticky ethical dilemma. I certainly do not want to see government intrude in the decision process or be involved in any way. But dang it...I do not want to be stuck drooling in my shoe in a corner somewhere for years because I won’t just die.