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2008-11-01T07:21:00.000-07:00

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PROPOSITION I-1000 at
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Physician assisted suicide forces people to commit...

2008-09-21T23:27:00.000-07:00

Physician assisted suicide forces people to commit suicide before most of them want to. Most people fantasize about dying when they are too weak to care for themselves. But that's not how assisted suicide works. They have to be strong enough to take the overdose themselves. At that level of strength, most of them are not dying when they planned--when they are too weak to care for themselves. Physician assisted suicide forces people to die too soon. It is a totally impractical idea.

Doctors are able to prescribe morphine and other medicines to keep the level of pain down. We no longer have to suffer unbearable pain. If people who are too weak to care for themselves are treated with the dignity and compassion their humanity deserves, losing our independence isn't unbearable either.

And regardless of ethics, assisted suicide simply doesn't meet the needs people think it will. They'll be dying too early.

Hi,lab rat. I have covered this pretty extensively...

2008-01-08T17:13:00.000-08:00

Hi,lab rat. I have covered this pretty extensively in my books and in some articles. But in a nutshell, in one the injury or illness is causing the death, in the other, one is being killed. Secondly, by take away life support and sometimes people don't die (except food and fluids). Third, one is an act done to someone, the other is a withdrawal of something being done. Finally, the US Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in 1997 that the distinction was real and important. Thanks for stopping by.

what's the moral difference between asking to have...

2008-01-08T16:38:00.000-08:00

what's the moral difference between asking to have life support withdrawn (legal) and asking to have a lethal dose of drugs administered (not, presently, legal in any state except Oregon)?

For centuries human beings were loved and honored ...

2007-12-05T18:22:00.000-08:00

For centuries human beings were loved and honored simply for being themselves. We had dignity above the animals. For centuries a human being was willing to lay down their own life for another human being, even a person unbeknownst to the willing hero. We need to regain that lost personhood of each and every individual. We need to recognize the beauty of personhood again. The slippery slope of allowing humans to kill themselves, jades us as a nation, then citizens begin killing one another: i.e. (1.) sometimes for their own personal comfort- this is quite blatant in the ugliness of abortion which, always- each and
every time- leaves one dead and one wounded; occasionally two are left dead (2.) sometimes for sport which has been demonstrated time and time again in our schools. We need to restore America to her former beauty. We need to once again, practice geniune love from conception to natural death. We don't need any more cowardly escapes from life and true love. We need a REAL HERO.

FOR CENTURIES WE'VE HELPED INJURED OR DIEING ANIMA...

2007-12-05T13:47:00.000-08:00

FOR CENTURIES WE'VE HELPED INJURED OR DIEING ANIMALS TO EUTHANASIA AND STOP THEIR SUFFERING,I THINK WE HAVE A MORALE OBLIGATION TO GIVE PEOPLE THE SAME CONSIDERATION DEATH WITH DIGNITY,IF THE INDIVIDUAL IS AT PEACE WITH IT AND THEIR FAMILY TOO,THEN IT SHOULD BE THEIR RIGHT,OF COURSE ITS NOT THE IDEAL CHOICE,BUT IN THE END POSSIBLY THE MOST HUMANE CHOICE.ITS NOT TO BE AN OUT FOR SOME SELFISH CHILD NOT TO HAVE TO CARE FOR THE PARENT THAT CLEANED THEM UP FOR YEARS ON END.

Death and dying used to be natural parts of the fa...

2007-12-02T08:02:00.000-08:00

Death and dying used to be natural parts of the family life cycle. The family stuck it out together, took care of their own until death, and even then the family was responsible for holding the wake (usally in their own parlors in their houses) and the funeral itself.

We've become so divorced from the natural cycles of life and death that death is both a burden (when it was once just another part of the routine, like cleaning your house), and something we fear out of proportion to the reality. And this is *me* talking - I've got severe death anxiety. Would I if our culture were different?

Respect the aged and the dying, give them whatever they need to keep them free from pain and as able to participate in the family life as possible.

This guy is griping about having to take care of his ailing father? Talk about wicked.

He could have just as well decided that the fight ...

2007-12-02T01:25:00.000-08:00

He could have just as well decided that the fight against physician-assisted/aid/killing-in-death had "fallen in his lap."

If this idiot wants to kill himself, who is stoppi...

2007-12-01T21:39:00.000-08:00

If this idiot wants to kill himself, who is stopping him? He already has that right.

Just don't ask doctors to employ medical killing as treatment.

And did you catch this line:My father might die be...

2007-12-01T18:42:00.000-08:00

And did you catch this line:
My father might die before his uncertain steps give way to immobility. And sons and daughters like me would not have to confront so much decrepitude and mortality, the realities that keep my visits too brief and infrequent. We would have less protracted and harrowing intimacy with degeneration and death. We would be spared, and that would be our loss.

On the other hand, the Japanese are starting to make robots to care for the aged...LINK