RE: Shouldn't the right to die be a human right?
December 15, 2016 at 8:34 pm
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2016 at 8:34 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
I just think this can quickly become a slippery slope, and I feel like I'm seeing it here.
So we permit assisted suicide for the terminally ill and for those with severe debilitating illnesses or disabilities. Ok.. morally I don't agree. But I agree that in these cases, the government should leave it up to the individual and a doctor.
But it should stop there with a hard line.
Beyond that is where things really start to take a dangerous turn. If the above is only the start, as everyone here is saying it would be, then that means that other people who are physically ok but just depressed enough that they simply don't want to live anymore can get themselves killed by doctors as well. Although some of you are saying this should require thorough psychiatric evaluations, etc, others are saying even that shouldn't be needed. And that we should have suicide clinics where people walk in to get voluntarily killed.
And for those saying it can't happen unless there's been a thorough evaluation, what exactly are we evaluating for? Obviously the person is mentally ill, otherwise he wouldn't want to end his life. And if the underlying belief is that suicide is a neutral act and that everyone should have the right to die, then why would they need any sort of evaluation? Shouldn't someone just be able to walk into a CVS, purchase a suicide pill, and be done with it? If no hard line is established, and if the underlying rationale is that suicide is fine and dandy, it wouldn't take long to get to that point.
We should be trying to help people who want to kill themselves, to save them. Not make it easier and more acceptable for them to go through with it.
So we permit assisted suicide for the terminally ill and for those with severe debilitating illnesses or disabilities. Ok.. morally I don't agree. But I agree that in these cases, the government should leave it up to the individual and a doctor.
But it should stop there with a hard line.
Beyond that is where things really start to take a dangerous turn. If the above is only the start, as everyone here is saying it would be, then that means that other people who are physically ok but just depressed enough that they simply don't want to live anymore can get themselves killed by doctors as well. Although some of you are saying this should require thorough psychiatric evaluations, etc, others are saying even that shouldn't be needed. And that we should have suicide clinics where people walk in to get voluntarily killed.
And for those saying it can't happen unless there's been a thorough evaluation, what exactly are we evaluating for? Obviously the person is mentally ill, otherwise he wouldn't want to end his life. And if the underlying belief is that suicide is a neutral act and that everyone should have the right to die, then why would they need any sort of evaluation? Shouldn't someone just be able to walk into a CVS, purchase a suicide pill, and be done with it? If no hard line is established, and if the underlying rationale is that suicide is fine and dandy, it wouldn't take long to get to that point.
We should be trying to help people who want to kill themselves, to save them. Not make it easier and more acceptable for them to go through with it.
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