Where do you draw the line?
If a conservative Christian man recognized his homosexuality and demanded euthanasia to avoid risking hell, who are you to tell him he can't believe that?
Tom
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Doctor assisted suicide. Are you for it or against it?
- Thread starter Silent Screams
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If a conservative Christian man recognized his homosexuality and demanded euthanasia to avoid risking hell, who are you to tell him he can't believe that?
Tom
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Brain injuries are not necessarily terminal, which is the heart of the debate. Even if we had legalized euthanasia, your doctor probably wouldn't have allowed it in your situation.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Except doctors take an oath to help and heal their patients, not aid in their delusions and fantasies.
So another conservative Christian with a medical license, and doesn't think god and hell are delusions or fantasies can give his patient The Shot?
Tom
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Then I would hope the ensuing malpractice would prevent this doctor from every practicing again, and send a clear message to any hopeful doctors that their patients, by necessity, must come before their personal religious beliefs.
I am also assuming the ways the laws would be written would also prevent such a catastrophe, and specifically state such a procedure is only to be done for those who are terminally ill.
Although this right's not codified,
I'm for assisted suicide.
Our lives belong
to us along
with right to end it, dignified.
I'm for assisted suicide.
Our lives belong
to us along
with right to end it, dignified.
I said "terminally ill", like advanced cancer or the last stages of AIDS. Being a self-hating gay man is not "terminally ill".
You mean, the way you assume that Hoosier law will be written to prevent catastrophe? Like religious freedom of Christian people balanced with that of queers?
Tom
And there's people who would love if I killed myself, but we're not talking about the opinions of whackjobs which are irrelevant in this discussion.
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
I don't agree with it.
How would one write a law that prevents whackjobs from following them?
Tom
Yeah, I think a terminal illness is easy to define. Its an illness that is with high certainty killing the patient.
Quality of life issues are the consideration for euthanasia,
there is little quality when you find yourself just a mind in a totally unresponsive body.
and when the prognosis is total and permanent disability needing care for what remains of life.
thank HaShem for the stubbornness to prove the doctors wrong ...
Out of curiosity what about non-terminal but untreatable illnesses which drastically reduce quality of life? If you can write a dnr to prevent a vegetative state, why not doctor assisted suicide? There are also non-terminal illnesses, disorders and injuries which cause debilitating pain which are sometimes untreatable.
Sees
Dragonslayer
I think everyone has the right to take their own life and don't really have a problem with someone else performing a mercy killing on them, if that is their wish. Definitely wouldn't want laws in place so that I am pitching in towards it financially or medical staff is required to carry it out.
Look to the places where it's already legal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide