Posted on 05/02/2018 7:10:00 AM PDT by mkleesma
Normalizing “assisted” death, will have bad consequences for “undesireables” in the future.
“George and Shirley had talked about assisted death as an option for nearly 40 years. They became more resolute after witnessing another elderly relative suffer in the last years of her life.”
They talked about killing themselves for 40 years.
YIKES!
Agreed.
Reading the article was disturbing.
If they made them into a cracker to feed the remaining family it would have surprised me.
“Dean Andrew Asbill, from St. James Cathedral in Toronto, administered their final rites.” Does anyone wonder why Christianity is fading in Canada and other western countries? If so here is your answer. “Be your own God. If it feels good do it.”
Ooh, I love you so much I prefer you and I both kill ourselves than to be with you one minute longer.
"That sounds like a homicide or something"
It is.
George and Shirley had champagne and lobster, and toasted to their life.
Pretty sorry life if they'd been contemplating death for 40 years. Poor lobsters. Why eat any living thing while you're planning your death. Horrid people. That's like tossing the pepperonis on the pizza you ordered in the garbage because you're vegetarian. Yes, know someone who does that.
Three of the Brickendens’ four children — Angela, 54, Saxe, 60 and Pamela, 71 — were in the room as their parents said their final goodbyes.
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Perhaps the other kid refused to attend this suicide based on moral reasons?
I would not have supported nor attended this suicide if it were my parents.
If you want to off yourself, do it.
Don’t soil the medical profession by making them do it for you.
Very hard to make it business, though: no returned customer
George and Shirley made a choice. They may have in all likelihood placed themselves in hell by turning away from God and His Will, deliberately preferring themselves and their own will to God’s, in effect saying: “I will not serve!” The choice was theirs and it was a very sad and eternal choice to make. May the Lord have mercy on them and their children for allowing this to happen!
Liberals, my arse. It’s a libertarian thing. And why does the state have a decision about when one chooses to die?
At present, one must hurt someone other to decide at which time to depart. (For example, jump in front of a train or off a building, or shoot oneself and have a victim or victims be traumatized by the event.) Why should that be?
People have the right to decide when tey depart, I say.
No, you’ve all got it all wrong. Abortion is the killing of ANOTHER. Suicide is the killing of oneself. BIG difference. Get it?
tey= they, of course. :)
bttt
bttt!
Yes - what they don't have is a right to drag others, especially in the medical profession, to enable them.
"Assisted Suicide" is an oxymoron - if someone does it for you, it's just plain murder.
Doctor assisted suicide is not the same as one killing oneself. By allowing "doctor assisted" suicide you are opening the door to murder.
How do we know if both of those old folks 100% agreed to die by the doctor's hand? We do not. The paperwork is in order and that is all we have after the person is dead.
There is too much temptation for people with motives to "help" their friends, relatives agree to death, and sign the paperwork. People do change their minds. Doctors are supposed to be in favor of preserving life.
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