RE: Shouldn't the right to die be a human right?
December 16, 2016 at 12:08 pm
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2016 at 12:10 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(December 16, 2016 at 11:54 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: You're not wrong, CL. I completely understand your point here. When that happened we did mobilize as a group.
I think if it were done as it would have to be done, with weeks/months of counseling and not in a decision made at low point, our reaction would have been different. I still would try to talk my friend out of it, but in the end if through an entire process s/he decided that it was their time, I would be begrudgingly supportive.
The problem I see with this though, is the kind of attitude it would eventually lead to. Things may start off that way, as you describe, because as a society we are still conditioned to seeing suicide as a negative thing... and our reaction is still to try to save the person and help them get better. But I can see how starting to make these allowances for assisted suicide of physically healthy yet depressed people can eventually turn into a more apathetic attitude towards suicide as a whole. And eventually it would get to the point where us as a society would become desensitized to suicide and our first reaction when someone is suicidal will no longer be to try to help them get better. It will simply be "Hey bro, you do you. Your body, your choice, none of my business to try to stop you." Does that make sense?
We need to maintain that life is important and special for the good of our own society.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
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