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Dying to talk about euthanasia : Comments
By The Redhead, published 20/9/2010Let’s show some courage as a community. Let's have some sensible, adult discussion on euthanasia.
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So just to clarify: when you write
<<I look upon "mercy killing," as something that's done (under medical advice) as a last resort,and only to alleviate the person's pain and suffering. A person who is dying anyway.>>
are you talking about 'mercy' killing with or without the person's consent - 'under medical advice' of course, whatever that might mean in real-life ? 'Last resort' or not ? Funny how talk of 'last resort' imposes a sort of urgency on the killing process. It's a bit like the way that talking of 'dying with dignity' and 'quality of life' also tarts up killing.
Can we assume the person's consent, 100 % ? i.e. nobody else making judgments about killing somebody 'to alleviate the person's pain and suffering' ?
I'm intrigued about your throw-away proviso: 'a person who is dying anyway.' We all are, Foxy: can you see how this could be stretched to conceivably include any of us?
Or are you subtly introducing an age-limit on how much life each of us should be limited to ?
You wouldn't be a Green supporter by any chance ? Is there a strand of Green ideology that depicts humans as excrescences which should be 'minimised' ? Is there also a move amongst those Greens to self-sterilise ? Or is it only the rest of us, the unenlightened, who are excrescences ? I letterboxed and handed out electoral material for the Greens for about ten years: unless they clarify this issue fully, that will be the end of that. I'm already p!ssed off at their Indigenous policies.
Or are you a Christian or Muslim - do you believe that death doesn't matter much, you'll go straight to heaven anyway ? Sorry mate, there's no heaven, no after-life: this is all we are going to get, make the best of it - and let others do so too.
Joe