tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post3167453140435577981..comments2024-03-28T09:15:04.144-04:00Comments on Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Consent to die is a "cruel trap" says the euthanasia lobby.Alex Schadenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-28739440782645973212021-04-23T13:41:08.642-04:002021-04-23T13:41:08.642-04:00buda - boom !
This is where the real discussion b...buda - boom !<br /><br />This is where the real discussion begins. I would urge all of those in other countries not to do as we have done, which is to say spend years haggling over the details of voluntary death. Euthanasia is not about voluntary death at all. Euthanasia is "medicine".<br /><br />If it is good medicine to kill someone who wants to die, then it is good medicine to kill someone who doesn't (in similar circumstances) and in the end, there will also be terrific pressure on people who do not wish to die (who obstinately and willingly refuse to "take" their medicine).<br /><br />So the real battle is about the moral validity of wishing to live even when you are sick. Trying to stop the intellectually suicidal is a pure waste of time (unless they wish to be stopped which a great many do).<br /><br />It is time, I believe, not merely to attempt to stop assisted death legislation, but above all, to insert key language into every such passes. Clearly stating that assisted death is but an individual whim. That there is no objective justification that can ever be "transferred" (by analogy) to any other case.<br /><br />That no one, be they competent or otherwise, should ever have to die in order to vindicate the suicidal whim of those who have (so atypically) demanded assisted death. Much less to validate the weird sense of duty that compels certain people to "do something" when there really is nothing that "needs" to be done.<br /><br />We must demand that all of this logic be explicitly built into any new assisted death legislation going forward. And Unfortunately, for us in Canada that now really means "you" for "we" have already failed.<br /><br />Best Regards,<br /><br />Gordon Friesen, Montreal<br /><br />http://www.euthanasiediscussion.net/ (français)<br /><br />http://euthanasiadiscussion.com/ (english site in development)<br /><br />http://hopeandfree.com/ (personal philosophical musings)<br />gordon friesenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14093992667966373256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-19676384085523061632021-04-23T13:13:20.281-04:002021-04-23T13:13:20.281-04:00This is EXACTLY the fear that I have as I enter th...This is EXACTLY the fear that I have as I enter the last few years (decades?) of my own life I DO NOT want to be summarily killed, just bec. I am "inconvenient>" (funny how that parallels many of the abortions obtained in the USA, isn't it?!) but becc. I truly wish to go on to my eternal life rather than suffer here on earth...But, then just like the beginning of life, I DO believe there is SOMEONE WHOSE opinion on the matter trumps mine. Inconvenient or not, would rather leave the decision to Someone else, ar at least that is how I feel at the moment. Have to put it in writing still, but also must let my "heirs" (!) know this. smetronoreply@blogger.com