Just happened recently.
So, right-to-die the right way to do things in the realm of medical practice, or is it just a poor excuse on the behalf of western medicines focus on treating symptoms rather than a search for cures?
__________________ "Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian."
- Emma Goldman
Last edited by Liberator on Jun 3rd, 2011 at 05:09 PM
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I think it depends on the disease... Some people simply aren't going to recover.
When a pet is on its last days, we put them down for their own sake.. Let them die with some dignity. Yet, we insist on letting humans die of natural causes, no matter how much they suffer...
Personally, I think this is nothing more then imposing your moral values on someone else.. It's the height of selfishness. Just because you cherish life, no matter what, doesn't give you the right to insist someone can't choose the way they wish leave this world.
It's a small consolation that there IS, in fact, a loophole here in the US that allows doctors to dope someone up with so much morphine, that it ends up killing them, which is seen as incidental to taking away their agony..
But that's only at the very end, after they've been through god knows how much torturous pain...
__________________ "Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian."
But not as awesome as George Tiller "The Baby Killer".
(To foreigners and others who don't know who he is: George Tiller was an abortion doctor in Kansas who got murdered by a Bible Thumper, and it made national headlines.)
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Jun 3rd, 2011 05:03 PM
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