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To: little jeremiah

You’re purposefully omitting the fundamental difference between the two; the choice of the person to end their own life. Physician assisted suicide involves adults making adult decisions involving their own life, while abortion simply takes the life of a person without their consent.

Two completely different things.


16 posted on 01/04/2009 1:28:36 PM PST by vivalaoink
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To: vivalaoink

People can already kill themselves any time they want. We’ve hashed this out numerous times on other threads. I don’t want to re-invent the wheel, but here are the basics - people can find/get prescribed medications that will, if overdosed on, cause death. Easy as pie, even for a bedridden person. Voila! Suicide without doc’s or government intervention.

And if someone is not bedridden, there are the methods wagglebee noted as well as entire books written on the subject. And if a person is bedridden and can’t or doesn’t want to go the pharmaceutical route, they just stop eating and drinking, death occurs within a week or so.

That’s one thing.

The other thing is this (and I know you know this unless you are spectacularly ill-informed) that many people in the Metherlands have been killed, without their permmission, in the name of “doctor assisted suicide”. Without their permission. That is the slippery slide that does and will occur; as well as sick, helpless, elderly and infirm human beings being pressued to kill themselves.

Beyond disgusting. Just say you want to go for Soylent Green and be honest about your position.


18 posted on 01/04/2009 2:22:38 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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