Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Cboldt

"I know you didn't ask me, but actually, I would. Because I hold life as a sacred gift that is not mine to take under that circumstance. Otherwis, and this is MY conscience we are talking about, not YOURS, my conscience would not feel clean."

Your conscience would not feel clean if you followed the wishes of your spouse? I am sorry to hear that. It is your matrimonial responsibility to obey the wishes of your loved one especially when it concerns end of life matters and there is no shame in following through with your pledge to honor that commitment.


1,492 posted on 03/31/2005 10:42:03 AM PST by Clorinox
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1481 | View Replies ]


To: Clorinox

People don't have the right to ask their spouses or family to become murderers. How selfish!


1,515 posted on 03/31/2005 10:53:10 AM PST by Freedom Dignity n Honor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1492 | View Replies ]

To: Clorinox
Your conscience would not feel clean if you followed the wishes of your spouse?

Under the circunstance and wish that is being discussed, yes, that is accurate. I would not put my spouse down. I would not refuse her body food and water, if her body was not wracked with disease and otherwise entering its demise. That decision belongs to God, not to man.

She'd do the same for me. We happen to share the same sense of moral absolute in some areas, and life happens to be a pretty big one.

Even if she told me, while she was healthy, that she'd want to be dead if she was incapaciated, I wouldn't cause her to die by refusing to feed and water her, not would I cause her to die by shooting her or giving morphine, etc. I might sign her up for the "living crash dummy" program though. ;-) (just kidding on that last point)

1,574 posted on 03/31/2005 11:18:29 AM PST by Cboldt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1492 | View Replies ]

To: Clorinox

The way you fetishize "end of life matters" demonstrates your leftist tendencies. To non-leftists the end of life is not that confusing.


1,888 posted on 03/31/2005 12:52:57 PM PST by Hotspur
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1492 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson