Perhaps you should read your own posts (as well as the guy you're defending):
Rusha wrote:
"Means that terminal patients should get to decide if they want extra measures taken to prolong their existence.
When someone is lingering on and has no chance of surviving, their wishes should be the deciding factor as to what medical care is forthcoming."
(Would "medical care" include lethal injection?).
Granite wrote:
"I support the choice to opt for euthanasia in cases of extreme suffering or terminal illness (which you'd know if you actually read my posts; I suspect you just skim them). And it is your body, so if you want to drive into the ground or misuse it to your heart's content (discontent?), be my guest."
"I'd reserve the right to die for those with a clinically diagnosed case that is terminal, unequivocally intolerable, and medically documented to pose non-stop (and untreatable) agony and suffering."
I see, so even though I disagree in every way with the individuals you rattled off, you somehow think they're important or significant to my worldview. "They all look the same to me" definitely comes to mind...
Very good, you can cut and paste.
Obviously if I meant lethal injection, I would have stated it outright. :duh:
I do not work in health care, but I have served as a minister in a hospital during my studies.
I have experienced something similar though. My mother died from metastasized cancer after around 1 month in palliative care. I think the outcome you sketch here happens in most cases, and that is the conundrum of this subject, people can defy inhumane pain.
My point is the minority that can not handle it or are not surrounded by family and other loved ones to cling to and to inspire them.
Loving care and dignified treatment should always be the priority for health care, I just think that in a minority of cases that care can be the mercy of granting a death that is inevitable anyway, to relieve them of unspeakable suffering.
Sorry about your husband.
But Selaphiel, my deep concern is also for the person who is asked to administer a "Lethal dose". How does one live with that?
To allow someone to slip away whilst giving them enough pain medication to ease the way is one thing, but, to actively take a life?
I would not do it. Further, I would not ask someone to do it for me.
I have experienced pain that was beyond toleration. Medication dulled the edges so I could breathe. This was not a life threatening situation.
I needed to control the pain so I could continue to function. Eventually the situation got better.
When people are dying it is another kind of situation. There are no one size fit's all answers.
If a person wishes to end his/her own life it is an existential choice.
peace, bybee
But Selaphiel, my deep concern is also for the person who is asked to administer a "Lethal dose". How does one live with that?
Explain your "worldview". Where do rights come from? What is the basis for morality? If morality is relative, is there really such a thing as morality?
LOL...get used to it. I acknowledge the wisdom of others. I not only give them credit for their ideas, I link the article so that others can share in that wisdom.
Start a new thread if you like, I have zero interest in derailing this one.
So you have no thoughts of much originality and lean on other people to do your heavy lifting.
Yeeeeeeeeeah.
Dude, you're old news and I've seen your type breeze in and out of here before. Stop acting like you're TOL's hottest big thing. You're old, boring, and predictable. Think for yourself. It's a lot more fun.
With upwards of 25,000 posts, I see that you have TOL "staying power".
I can see why others like me "breeze in and out of here", the welcoming committee is warm like a pile of.....
So moral relative thinking is "fun". Hmmmm, I always thought of it as "destructive".
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM
With upwards of 25,000 posts, I see that you have TOL "staying power".
I can see why others like me "breeze in and out of here", the welcoming committee is warm like a pile of.....
So moral relative thinking is "fun". Hmmmm, I always thought of it as "destructive".
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM
A person (notice I avoided the word "man") has got to know his limitations.
This is not a "welcoming committee" kind of place".
You can expect to be challenged...
If you keep an open mind you may learn much that is useful.
If someone pukes on my floor and asks me for a loan the first time I meet them I generally won't oblige.
A person (notice I avoided the word "man") has got to know his limitations.
With upwards of 25,000 posts, I see that you have TOL "staying power".
I can see why others like me "breeze in and out of here", the welcoming committee is warm like a pile of.....
So moral relative thinking is "fun". Hmmmm, I always thought of it as "destructive".
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM
Hence my overwhelming desire to be "deloused" after spending a few minutes with those warm and fuzzy atheists on this site.
I've never found the atheist mindset to be "challenging" (I pity them).
Ah, the "open mind" facade. I'll stick with knowng the difference bewteen right and wrong, good vs evil, purity vs debauchary, as told to us through Scripture.
You (and your fellow atheists) are so used to the stench on your "floor" that you don't even notice that it's covered in your own puke.
A "loan" from you? Do you really think I would ask an atheist for advice on anything?
I've "challenged" your immoral mindset and you HATE it.
(By the way, what did you think of the video of your fellow (homosexual) atheists SODOMIZING the Son of God?).
You (and your fellow atheists) are so used to the stench on your "floor" that you don't even notice that it's covered in your own puke.
A "loan" from you? Do you really think I would ask an atheist for advice on anything?
I've "challenged" your immoral mindset and you HATE it.
(By the way, what did you think of the video of your fellow (homosexual) atheists SODOMIZING the Son of God?).
You (and your fellow atheists) are so used to the stench on your "floor" that you don't even notice that it's covered in your own puke.
A "loan" from you? Do you really think I would ask an atheist for advice on anything?
I've "challenged" your immoral mindset and you HATE it.
(By the way, what did you think of the video of your fellow (homosexual) atheists SODOMIZING the Son of God?).