Pro-life = anti-abortionist
Transubstantiation = cannibalism

You say tomato I say tomato, let's call the whole thing off

Still nothing useful to say?

"money laundering" is nice and stain-free.
"roadside assist" is when your bank-financed fee-gouging blue-tooth rock-climbing wagon breaks down.

Paul can ramble as much as he likes. It doesn't disguise the fact that he wants slavery to remain legal in Australia.

With the greatest respect, you three are complete morons. Try to stick roughly on the topic.

We've been down this path many times before. As an atheist, I'm all too aware that each of our lives is our one and only life. There is no coming back. There is no after-life, no heaven, no Paradise, no continuation of the kale-and-goat-cheese life sitting around one's favourite bistro talking about the best Carrera marble bench-tops.

Life is incredibly precious. So thinking about the option of suicide is incredibly important. Ideally, absolutely nobody else should be involved. Of course, if someone is clearly near their end, medical staff may advise appropriate medication to relieve suffering, knowing from experience that it may hasten that end. Having lost my dear wife in this way to liver cancer, I don't begrudge the wonderful palliative care staff who looked after her in her last days. Five weeks from first pains to the end, it's not enough, but that's certainly not the fault of palliative care staff.

Suicide is suicide, a one-person venture. It should never involve family members or 'friends', or anybody not involved in a medical capacity, as described above. We all get depressed occasionally, some for very good reason, and we may all have suicidal thoughts, but we have to drive through that and picture ourselves being useful, wanted, needed, contributing, even if it's just with a smile.

Remember: You're a long time gone. Your going will probably cause somebody heart-ache and grief for the rest of their lives. They will miss you every day. Think twice.

And you never know who secretly loves you :)

Joe

Slavery never ever was legal in Australia and never ever will be!
[Albeit, some (for whom there will never be enough superlatives) angels merely masquerading as vastly overworked and routinely underpaid nurses may be treated as such!?]

The as above, allegorical allegation demonstrates very ably, how diabolically disingenuous the assisted suicide supporters are, and to a generic man?

Look, anyone of sound mind, can now create a living will to completely control the manner of their natural cause dying, assisted or otherwise!

If we are to improve that outcome? All we need do is protect Doctors from any legalistic repercussions for their complete compliance with your legally witnessed, signed and sealed, legible and unmistakable precise final written instructions!

Even there, cancelable by you, with a deathbed change of mind!

End of story and demonstrably deliberately disingenuous debate!

Assisted suicide can never ever, nor should be, a remedy for clinical depression or imagined symptoms, normal aging or imagined slavery!

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Und vile due are on your veet, light mine havana, get ze phone und answer ze door; and don't take all day, can't keep ze outservice ladies vaiting.

Mine Got,due need a rocket up your exhaust bipe, day chust don't make slafes the vay day used to Amye? Ha, Ha, ho, ho, he, he.
Alan B.

With the greatest respect, And you never know who secretly loves you :) , thanks Joe , but the "moron" word always brings the carving knife closer to carotid artery.
what's a "euphemism?"

Hi Nick,

What's a 'euphemism' ? A softer, more pleasant way of expressing something: for example, 'moron'.

And 'try to stick roughly to the topic.'

Joe

excellent work. and did you notice "euphemism" in the article topic?