Posted on 11/10/2014 12:19:09 PM PST by wagglebee
so what u are saying is someone should continue to be miserable everyday so OTHER people are not?
I find that skewed.
In January, my bride’s water broke. Our daughter was not due till July. We were given a 95% chance of losing the baby. And if she was born, she would be in tough shape.
Dani was born four months later, and is doing well. The doctors told us there is no medical reason why she is ok.
Doc’s don’t know everything. Ours where great, but they often admitted they had no idea of why Dani kept improving.
Good question. Do you own your liberty and labor? Can you sell yourself into slavery? How about your descendants?
That's a very torturous connection of thoughts. Why not just deal with the case at hand. End of life decisions should be, and are, a human right. You and/or the government have no business butting in to those decisions.
The left loves death, unless it’s for convicted murderers.
Dignity is the result of self-respect. It cannot be taken away, it can only be set aside deliberately.
Quitting is not self-respect.
As an Orthodox Christian, I share the author’s deep-seated objections to suicide, “assisted” or otherwise. However, I’m not sure that objecting to the “death with dignity” rhetoric is the right place to fight the issue.
Certainly many pagan cultures have seen suicide as a dignified end under certain circumstances — from the losing general falling upon his sword in Roman times to the full ritual sepuku of the Japanese ultranationalist author Yukio Mishima (full ritual sepuku was always a form of assisted suicide) — and while the pagan notion is morally wrong, dignity is an aesthetic, rather than a moral, category and neither Brutus’s death nor Mishima’s strikes me as lacking dignity.
Good call, they are trying to re-define “suicide” as “dignity.”
We have also had the words “gay,” “marriage,” “rainbow,” “family,” “love,” “gender,” and “tolerance” redefined for us. At least they are trying hard.
Yes, Blue Jays, but would you insist that a doctor assist you? That, in my opinion, is the big problem.
Suicide is suicide. I can’t find beauty in this decision. No other way to explain it for me. I have known too many friends who were given a short time to live and lived much longer or are still going strong. I will stay by you in your darkest hours but don’t ask me to unplug a machine or give you a overdose because I would have to carry that action for life’s eternity and beyond.
You read my post wrong.
“While I understand everybody in life at some point gets depressed and thinks about suicide, actually advocating it as a right is really outrageous. Suicide is extremely selfish and the trail of pain that it leaves behind is long.”
That means that a father, who is miserable and feels “worthless”, then offs himself. Leaving behind the trail of pain for his wife, children, and friends. Make sense?
How so? The difference is whether the individual opts to forfeit his life or if someone else makes the decision to murder him. Not condoning assisted suicide but, in the case of those with fatal illness that will make daily existence harder and harder for the person and their loved ones, for a possibly protracted period, I will not judge them or condemn them. Some may consider it a sacrifice for the benefit of their loved ones - someone in the past allowed Himself to be sacrificed when he could have stopped it and opted to allow Himself to be killed.
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