Suicide is not ‘dignity,’ it is ‘suicide’

LifeSiteNews ^ | 11/10/14 | Wesley J. Smith

[wagglebee]

The issue is whether facilitated suicide is a right. If it is, it can’t be limited to the dying.

Few people realize this and if it IS somehow a right, that means that the right to life is not unalienable.

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[MeshugeMikey]

we are the very edge...of the most dangerous set of legal decisions to ever have come down in the U.S.A.

There will be protests by “Suicide RIghts” groups....backed by the worst eugenics scum on the planet.

[Hugin]

Having the right to do something and deciding whether to do it are two different things. An individual can choose not to exercise that right. That doesn’t mean it’s not inalienable.

[bgill]

Contrast that with Lauren Hill who fights for every day she can. Lauren is living her life with dignity.

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/everyone-loves-lauren-hill-and-they-should

[wagglebee]

Unalienable means something that cannot be given away or repudiated.

Suicide IS NOT choosing to not exercise a right, it is choosing to alienate it.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Well said....
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.

This opens up a really big can of worms IMO.

[Blue Jays]

Unsure of where I really stand on this issue. It is a tough one.
If my doctor told me I was diseased, had a 0% chance of survival, and the next four months would be in excruciating pain until I died in a twisted heap...I might contemplate avenues.

[Hugin]

So what is it if you choose not to exercise your right to life?

[originalbuckeye]

Suicide is a tragedy. It is not dignified. The death culture controls Big Media and the sheeple follow them blindly. Life is precious to those who have a conscience.

[wagglebee]

Voluntarily refusing food, water, medical care, etc.

[Hugin]

So slow painful suicide is OK, fast painless suicide isn’t. Refusing food is every bit as much suicide as taking a pill.

You are attempting to turn a right into an obligation in order to buttress your religious belief.

[Jim from C-Town]

‘For my father’s disease, there is no cure.’

Life itself is a terminal illness whose only cure is death.

[Future Snake Eater]

I agree. It sounds high-minded and unsympathetic to blanket this issue as being pure evil. There are people who live every second of every day in terrible pain and can’t medicate it away without a lethal dose of medicine. While I’m weary of the possible slippery slope here, in the end, it’s the decision of the individual involved and their loved ones.

[Jim from C-Town]

‘As his days devolved into a drudgery of pills, bad daytime TV,.....’

No Netflix?

[Slyfox]

I was watching a St. Jude’s commercial last night. Those brave little kids. They are in the fight of their lives. And yet they exhibit all the human virtues in the face of an enemy. Not one of them would ever think of offing themselves. They are brave little souls.

[metmom]

If my doctor told me I was diseased, had a 0% chance of survival, and the next four months would be in excruciating pain until I died in a twisted heap...I might contemplate avenues.

The track record of the medical community in anything doesn't give me a lot of confidence about their predictions.

Not only are they often wrong, it doesn't leave room for a miracle that God could do.

And they do happen.

I met a pastor from Africa who was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer. He had pictures of himself in the hospital and he was a wreck.

God healed him and he's back in his home country pastoring a church again.

[Uncle Lonny]

Agreed. If you dont own your own life. What do you own?