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BBC News - Dutch offered 'euthanasia on wheels'


I believe life is the most important thing we have, all of us.
I also believe you should have the right to end it if you see fit.

This article made me think of my father.
He died in a hospital riddled with cancer, but he did it
on his own terms, by not using the morphine, and removing the breathing tubes.

I remember when he told us he was going to give up, and die that night
none of us believed it was possible, when i asked the nurse, she even said "no way"

But he did.

Its 16 years later and i still get angry sometimes that he just gave up and quit.

However it was his choice.

Because of an accident, i have chronic back pain, as well as migraines.

and i am 100% sure, i have never even come close to the agony he must have been fealing while the cancer was eating away, at his brain,
lungs, and prostate.

Put religion, laws, and whatnot aside.

Its your body, your life ... shouldn't you get to decide what is best for yourself?

What gives anybody the right to say different?
  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    While it is "illegal" here to commit suicide, those that are serious about doing so, do so. It's pretty hard for someone to stop someone else from it. So it is actually our own choice no matter who says differently.

    As for should it be aided by society? I don' think so. Not because people don't have the right to determine whether they no longer wish to live -- but because there's too much possibility that government would end up taking over that right and start deciding for themselves who should go and when.
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    • Profile picture of the author kenmichaels
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      -- but because there's too much possibility that government would end up taking over that right and start deciding for themselves who should go and when.
      my first thought was, that was a reaching quite a bit,

      then upon reflection, i think you DO have a pretty valid point.
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    • Profile picture of the author GT
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      ... there's too much possibility that government would end up taking over that right and start deciding for themselves who should go and when.
      Personally, I do not agree with euthanasia (for spiritual reasons), despite the fact that by human reasoning there are unquestionable circumstances when it would certainly seem to be the right thing to do.

      But I do agree with Sal that giving the government, or any controlling body, the ability to regulate and decide "who and how and when and why" would open up an eventual Pandora's Box.

      After all, the world population IS growing out of control and Sal has mentioned in another topic thread the approaching world food crisis.

      I have visions of Charlton Heston running around yelling, "Soilent Green! It's people! People!"

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  • I empathize, and agree with their position and the right to choose as they see fit. It provides another option. That is all. In America, they have a problem even respecting a 'DNR' request -

    But 'FOX' and the White Elephants are going to have a field day with this one...I can hear them now...

    just more fuel for their Healthscare pyre...
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  • What's even worse...in my vision, it's not Charlton Heston - it's Ronald McDonald!
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  • What's funny is, whenever I hear this term now, I think of the time a co-worker and I were discussing this one day regarding his very ill Grandmother at lunch - and another fellow nearby (who was known to be a few logs short of a cord) thought we were discussing Youth-in-Asia (), and started to go into this clueless racist tirade about this and that...he was a funny guy for a moron!

    We looked at him...:confused::confused: Looked at each other, and cracked up!

    At least he got us to smile about a serious subject - though that definitely was not his intent!
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