ottimista
May 27 2007, 06:56 PM
Dr. Kevorkian will be released soon after serving his eight year sentence.
My questions are:
Has America changed over the eight years in its viewpoint regarding physician assisted suicide?
When a person has a terminal, severly painful illness which can't be cured, do you feel that physicians should be allowed by law to end the patient's life in accordance with the patient's and family's wishes?
If physician assisted suicide offends your beliefs, should it be denied to others who hold a different belief?
If you feel that assisted suicide as set out above should never happen, why do you have this opinion?
Victoria Silverwolf
May 29 2007, 03:47 AM
Has America changed over the eight years in its viewpoint regarding physician assisted suicide?
I don't think it has actually changed very much. If anything, I suspect that there has been, for many years, a hidden support for euthanasia in those cases where there is genuinely no hope for relief from extreme suffering.
When a person has a terminal, severly painful illness which can't be cured, do you feel that physicians should be allowed by law to end the patient's life in accordance with the patient's and family's wishes?
Yes, under extreme circumstances. When the patient faces a life of nothing but extreme suffering which cannot be treated, it is cruel to deny that person the only possible way to end the suffering. We do this quite often for our animal companions; why should we not do it for our fellow humans?
Bikerdad
May 29 2007, 07:30 PM
Has America changed over the eight years in its viewpoint regarding physician assisted suicide?
Not much.
When a person has a terminal, severly painful illness which can't be cured, do you feel that physicians should be allowed by law to end the patient's life in accordance with the patient's and family's wishes?
No. Doing so violates the Hippocratic Oath. The rise of physician conducted murders in those countries that have adopted PAS demonstrates what happens when the fabric of the Oath is compromised.
If physician assisted suicide offends your beliefs, should it be denied to others who hold a different belief?
Yes. Public nudity is denied.
If you feel that assisted suicide as set out above should never happen, why do you have this opinion? The priorities of our government are LIFE, liberty, pursuit of happiness, in that order. The government should never explicitly condone activities that are contrary to those priorities.
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