[rollie]

I believe in personal choice as long as it doesn’t harm anyone else. We don’t know how severe her suffering was, we were not there. There should be very stringent safeguards in place for assisted suicide programs to protect the patient, starting first to make sure all efforts to relieve their pain and suffering and been tried and failed, and that suffering is truly physical and not mental which can be cured in so many ways these days. But a terminally ill patient in severe pain on the way to a sure death should have the right to choose to end their suffering and die in peace. We can all have our opinions about it but when you get right down to it, it’s really nobody else’s business.

[Rumplemeyer]

I too have MS, I will go only when God says it is time.

[pillut48]

Do you support unlimited, unchallenged abortions as well?
Just curious.

[dawn53]

But a terminally ill patient in severe pain on the way to a sure death should have the right to choose to end their suffering and die in peace

MS is not a fatal or terminal disease. It shortens the lifespan by an average of 5 years.

[metmom]

And just how long do you figure it will be before the decision is made for the patients? Be careful what you wish for.

Murder is murder and there's more to life than this one.

Besides, it's not true that it doesn't harm anyone else. No man is an island and everything everyone does has some impact on others.

[metmom]

But a terminally ill patient in severe pain on the way to a sure death should have the right to choose to end their suffering and die in peace.

We're all on our way to sure death. Once you see your scenario in place, all the restrictions around if will be gradually removed and then the choice taken away from the patient; the choice will be made for them.

You'll need to convince God that a person has the right to choose their moment of death and that murdering someone is OK.

[DouglasKC]

I believe in personal choice as long as it doesn’t harm anyone else. We don’t know how severe her suffering was, we were not there. There should be very stringent safeguards in place for assisted suicide programs to protect the patient, starting first to make sure all efforts to relieve their pain and suffering and been tried and failed, and that suffering is truly physical and not mental which can be cured in so many ways these days. But a terminally ill patient in severe pain on the way to a sure death should have the right to choose to end their suffering and die in peace. We can all have our opinions about it but when you get right down to it, it’s really nobody else’s business.

It does hurt others in an indirect way. What "assisted" suicides advocates are really asking for is for the right to kill people who request to be killed. It's legalized killing of willing victims.

The harm to others comes when it's becomes legal for the government to kill willing victims. And make no mistake about it, this is a request for the government to sanction and control the killing of individuals who have committed no crime. In other words, advocates of legalized government killing (assisted suicide) are ceding their right to life TO the government. Then whoever controls the government controls who lives and dies.

This isn't to mention the rampant abuse that will take place by those who want to make money. Death clinics will spring up. Lobbyists for death clinics will work endlessly to relax the rules and regulations.

This isn't a private issue for anyone. It was private when the only one that decided whether we lived or died was ourselves.

[stop_fascism]

This poor woman was not in physical pain, she was depressed.