Posted on 09/30/2007 10:01:27 AM PDT by wagglebee
The culture of death cannot accept that ALL life is "worth living" because it is a gift from God.
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"A little spitfire," agreed another.
This is really sick.
A step-by-step guide on how to rationalize euthenasia.
One might ask, "why is so much effort going in to promoting this practice; into brainwashing acceptance of it?"
Above average — that’s Lovelle
That is kind of a weird thing to say. Above Average??? Her life was above average. I never heard anyone say that before. Sure work performance perhaps, but life????
They sure made it sound beautiful that is for sure. It sure made it easy on the family because they were able to say goodbye and not have any regrets (last fight, etc). What I find strange is that if she has six months left to live, why so early??? Couldn’t she wait until after Christmas at least. I mean I don’t agree with this, but if people are going to do it than at least plan better. lol.
This is another sign of the end of days as outlined by Yah'shua in Matthew 24.shalom b'shem Yah'shua
This just turns my stomach. They take one incident of a control freak and turn it into "the norm" of how it should be. I work for a hospice and know the Dr's I work with would never be a part of something like this. Comfort measures and pain control is available for those who choose to die with dignity....but they won't help you commit suicide.
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Was this line supposed to highlight her crowning achievement in life? Sounds sort of sad to me.
This whole article just seemed to try to raise up and glorify what seemed like such a mediocre life. Her suicide is painted as a noble and fitting end to what seems, essentially, such an unremarkable life.
But I guess that's what the left is trying to do. Give the meaningless meaning and further convince the sheeple that their nehilism is acceptable and noble, even a bit mythological in scope.
"She's such a spitfire..." spare me. Spitfires fight till the bitter end, they don't swallow pills and duck out early.
For some reason I’m angry with her.
So what was this woman’s alternative?To die a slow painful death,unable to eat or drink and be numbed out of any feeling from morphine doses?
As long as there is hope for life,you should try to hang on.I think this woman had exhusted her hope,however.I don’t think she did the “right”thing since only God can take a life.
But I am not going to smugly sit up here and judge this woman.And can you honestly look yourself in the mirror and say you would not make the same choice if that were you?.
Yes.
If this “spitfire” was able to get so much done, why was she so near death’s door that she had to die?
Not being one of you other-peoples-suffering-is-noble types, this sounds to me like a pretty fair way to go.
A damn sight fairer than wasting away blind, incoherent, and hopefully too doped up to feel the pain in a hospital bed in a couple more weeks, which was the alternative.
“But I am not going to smugly sit up here and judge this woman.”
Yeah, me either.
“And can you honestly look yourself in the mirror and say you would not make the same choice if that were you?”
Nope, not with any degree of certainty. I wouldn’t be taken alive by terrorists either. There are a few situations in which I would take my own life so I’m not going to judge this woman.
“A step-by-step guide on how to rationalize euthenasia.”
Romanticizing the taking of one’s life.
I agree.
The alternative was probably a hundred or more thousand dollars to keep her alive until her life support would have run out ( yes she would have ended up on life support not long from now) in a hospital with ZERO QUALITY OF LIFE..and her family members struggling on a daily basis for the next 6 months as she got sicker and sicker. I am no fan of euthanasia but this woman’s choice does not make me feel uncomfortable.
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