(December 15, 2016 at 2:33 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Do ya'll actually support the notion of suicide clinics? I mean, I know Pool does... but the rest?
I struggle with this. If you have access to HBO, please watch VICE's "Right to Die" episode. It's Season 4, Episode 3. They follow people with ALS, people with terminal cancer, and also they were allowed to film a woman named Antoinette in Denmark who suffered from severe depression and ended her life on camera. It was profound and moving, and also very conflicting.
Here is a debrief version:
I 100% support the Right to Die for terminally ill patients. ALS would be, for me, the worst and scariest way to die. I would want to live my life to the fullest extent while I could. I don't want to prolong that ride. I want to go out on my terms, and I believe that is my right.
I don't know that people who are bipolar or suffer from depression are able to make that decision in the correct state of mind, and even writing that seems fucked. I believe bodily autonomy is king, so I think I'd have to place my reservations here in the hands of experienced medical ethicists.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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