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Originally Posted by JinnKai
I don't give a fuck how much you want to die, how much pain you're in, or how much your life sucks. I don't want you to kill yourself. Maybe it's selfish, but I don't give a damn. And I'd support any legislation that forbids you from doing so.
As a person whose best friend shot himself in the head with an AK47, and whose new best friend's father killed himself, I don't think that suicide is ever an option. I don't really care if it's selfish for me to keep you alive.
Once again, my opinion is in the minority.. Here goes...
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I am going to share your minority status. I'm also in the minority that hopes religion doesn't come to pass.
Much to my dismay, physician assisted suicide IS legal in at least one state. Part of the argument, when it was being voted on, was that doctors were afraid to give dying patients enough pain medication to make life bearable. I think they should have the pain relief they need. For me, if a terminally ill patient accidentally dies from their pain meds, that is one thing. And if a doctor/family decide to allow a dying family member to die of 'natural causes' and turn off the support machine, that is one thing. But for doctors to intentionally hasten death, that is an entirely different matter for me.
When assisted suicide was on the ballot, it seemed it was being discussed everywhere. Opponents worried that it was the first step towards euthanasia. Proponents said that was ridiculous. Now many of those same proponents are arguing that having the doc prescribe the killer meds is not enough. Because by the time the "patient" is able to go receive them, they are sometimes too far gone to do the deed themselves. Now I am hearing support of actual euthanasia, which is exactly what I feared most when 'assisted' became legal. If that becomes legal, are we then going to vote on who gets to decide whether a person is euthanised? Are families going to decide to hasten death to save inheritance money? (sounds ridiculous, but hey so did possible euthanasia). Will the government decide so that the government-paid medical bills don't pile up?
I don't know about y'all, but when I'm old I don't want anyone to have the right to kill me. And I plan on being a very, very crazy, grouchy and difficult old woman!!