RE: Shouldn't the right to die be a human right?
December 14, 2016 at 12:04 am
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2016 at 12:13 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Does it? Does it center around those situations? How common are they, how many vegetative people are campaigning for their right to die? In any case, dignified? Like what, a nice calm candlelit party and then they blow their brains out? There is no dignity in death, there's nothing. Pain, what pain, you're dead? Mess, what mess, you're dead?
Point, my point, anyway, is that it's a non-issue that they keep us bickering about like it meant anything, so that they can get work done elsewhere - where it actually matters....where there really is dignity to be stolen, where actual messes are made, where there are still people to feel pain. Control, control.... control.
Unable or unwilling? It's as monochromatic as mortality, and no amount of making it too personal to argue will change that. Human lives are tenuous. If you're conscious, you can end it, if you aren't.......You aren't there anyway. Your father could have, but didn't. Not a judgement, a statement of fact.
Point, my point, anyway, is that it's a non-issue that they keep us bickering about like it meant anything, so that they can get work done elsewhere - where it actually matters....where there really is dignity to be stolen, where actual messes are made, where there are still people to feel pain. Control, control.... control.
(December 14, 2016 at 12:01 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Well, my dad was in a situation where he was conscious but unable to end his life as he wanted. I don't think the portrait is as monochromatic as you're painting it, myself.
Unable or unwilling? It's as monochromatic as mortality, and no amount of making it too personal to argue will change that. Human lives are tenuous. If you're conscious, you can end it, if you aren't.......You aren't there anyway. Your father could have, but didn't. Not a judgement, a statement of fact.
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