I had to disagree.
It’s difficult to watch a loved one suffer, especially when there’s no hope that they will ever experience anything else. I speak from experience because I was there when my grandmother was dying of cancer in a nursing home. She tried to pull the tape off her iv. I held her hand to keep her from doing that. She looked at me so piteously that I really didn’t know if I was doing the right things.
Emotionally charged scenarios aside, at the end of the day, will human rights be at issue when the decision for euthanasia is made? Nine times out of ten, the decision will be based on the financial concerns of those who are not suffering.
If someone is coerced into confessing to a murder he didn’t commit, he can tell the jury “Hey they beat me over the head with a phone book to make me confess.” But, once dead, the patient will not be able to tell how the doctors and his great niece made suicide sound so reasonable until he thought about it some more, but then it was too late.
It’s difficult to watch a loved one suffer, especially when there’s no hope that they will ever experience anything else. I speak from experience because I was there when my grandmother was dying of cancer in a nursing home. She tried to pull the tape off her iv. I held her hand to keep her from doing that. She looked at me so piteously that I really didn’t know if I was doing the right things.
Emotionally charged scenarios aside, at the end of the day, will human rights be at issue when the decision for euthanasia is made? Nine times out of ten, the decision will be based on the financial concerns of those who are not suffering.
If someone is coerced into confessing to a murder he didn’t commit, he can tell the jury “Hey they beat me over the head with a phone book to make me confess.” But, once dead, the patient will not be able to tell how the doctors and his great niece made suicide sound so reasonable until he thought about it some more, but then it was too late.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
