Assisted Suicide

[Gamecock]

VERY STRONGLY support.

Forcing someone who wants to die to remain alive is one of the most morally abominable things I can think of.

What makes you think the choice will only be made by the patient?

[Gamecock]

VERY STRONGLY support.

Forcing someone who wants to die to remain alive is one of the most morally abominable things I can think of.

What makes you think the choice will only be made by the patient?

Hum... Because that's the whole point of assisted suicide?

I think "choice" is more complicated than you appear to make it.

Tell me, what is to stop an understaffed and crowded hospital or even a patient's own family from pressuring an ill person to just go ahead and die? I also fail to think of any viable mechanisms to prevent such an abuse.

[Gamecock]

VERY STRONGLY support.

Forcing someone who wants to die to remain alive is one of the most morally abominable things I can think of.

What makes you think the choice will only be made by the patient?

Hum... Because that's the whole point of assisted suicide?

I think "choice" is more complicated than you appear to make it.

Tell me, what is to stop an understaffed and crowded hospital or even a patient's own family from pressuring an ill person to just go ahead and die? I also fail to think of any viable mechanisms to prevent such an abuse.

He probably wouldn't have ended up in an understaffed overcrowded hospital on his death bed if he had a choice beforehand......I really think families would try and talk more of their relatives out of assisted suicide, than into it.

I'd like to think so too, but if even one band of selfish ers tried to bully their elderly into just giving up would be too much for me.

I do admit sympathy for the other side of the issue though.

[Gamecock]

I really don't need assistance to off myself. Thanks.

Not to be macabre but... you might need it some day. And so can I. If I even find myself not in the situation to choose how and when to end my life, I would want someone to do it on my behalf.

That awkward moment when Antonio V gets offed despite wanting to stay alive at the time.

Oh, I'm sure it was just a clerical error. You know how Doctors sometimes accidentally overlook some paper work...

[Gamecock]

Little paranoid conservative? Ok man, if the only thing you've got is absurd name-calling by your second post addressed to me, I can tell this won't be a productive conversation.