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To: TheDon
If a person is bound and determined to kill themselves, you will not stop them. I don't agree with it, I feel it is wrong...but I cannot stop them or prosecute them.

To me euthanasia is when the government or others kill those who are disabled, elderly, terminal, or otherwise "felt unneeded" without their consent and against their will. That is what I define as euthanasia and it is also out and out murder.

If a person commits suicide, that's suicide and assisting them in that is also wrong in my book, but does not rise to the horror of true euthanasia.

370 posted on 04/03/2005 5:03:42 PM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: Jeff Head
To me euthanasia is when the government or others kill those who are disabled, elderly, terminal, or otherwise "felt unneeded" without their consent and against their will.

For me, euthanasia is the killing of another person, under conditions that the killer has justified as being in the victim's best interests, i.e. they have no hope of recovery, etc.

Having the victim's pre-written authorization does not make it right in my book. It is still murder.

381 posted on 04/03/2005 8:59:22 PM PDT by TheDon (Euthanasia is an atrocity.)
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