tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post48865783106723462..comments2024-03-28T13:26:59.030-04:00Comments on Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Choosing to die with dignityAlex Schadenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-59361690531034201172011-05-04T17:50:49.738-04:002011-05-04T17:50:49.738-04:00I am mainly responding to Anonymous and to Alex Sc...I am mainly responding to Anonymous and to Alex Schadenber. Dear Anonymous I completely understand your comment. A person who chooses to end their life may be a person who:<br />1. Rejects violence (jumping of bridges, hanging, slashing one's wrist, throwing oneself under a train etc...) <br />2. Can not handle more suffering <br />3. Is afraid that he/she may survive such gruesome suicide attemp and end up in worst condition <br />4. Is too afraid to committ such violent and painful act. <br /><br />Alex, obviously you are not suffering to such a degree to understand that to some people suicide may feel like a necessity. <br />They may have exhausted many options, may have been suffering enormously for many years and continue to deteriorate. They may feel great shame in not being able to meet their most basic human needs or to have others witness their state of complete desintegration. They may have families who ignore, disrespect, reject or even abuse them because of their condition or because they are a burden.<br />I agree with you that dignity comes when people care for and journey with those who suffer but there are very few poeple who can do this for the most seriously ill or disabled.IBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-32602626608819529892010-03-01T22:10:20.954-05:002010-03-01T22:10:20.954-05:00Dear Anonymous:
I am not a vitalist. I have no wi...Dear Anonymous:<br /><br />I am not a vitalist. I have no wish to deny someone a natural death, but it is a ridiculous concept to say that we should give physicians the right to be directly and intentionally involved with taking our lives and then say, in the same breath, don't worry there won't be any colateral damage (other deaths).<br /><br />Further to that, your argument only works when you are talking about suicide. But since we are talking about assisted suicide or euthanasia, then your argument fails.<br /><br />I would never abandon anyone, but since when did dignity come from giving someone else the right to take your life.<br /><br />Dignity comes when we care for the other and journey with the other, not abandoning the other to their suicidal ideation or killing them because they supposedly asked for it.Alex Schadenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-64130728599915770552010-03-01T17:29:08.112-05:002010-03-01T17:29:08.112-05:00Is it so unreasonable that someone might rationall...Is it so unreasonable that someone might rationally choose to end their life?<br /><br />All life ends. Is not the last great freedom of the self-actualized person the choosing of their death's time and device?<br /><br />If we wish not to abandon people, might we not have to offer assistance in a few cases?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-3313053238207181802010-02-26T14:03:00.938-05:002010-02-26T14:03:00.938-05:00Dear Anonymous:
That is ridiculous. Your comments...Dear Anonymous:<br /><br />That is ridiculous. Your comments make it appear that suicide is a necessity. The fact is that most people don't commit suicide and don't even consider it an alternative.<br /><br />Further to that, the question is why does someone want to commit suicide. We can abandon people to their desperation or we can care about them.<br /><br />You choose to abandon them to their fears and I choose to careAlex Schadenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-14034515226673850982010-02-24T14:34:37.126-05:002010-02-24T14:34:37.126-05:00What does EPC proffer as an alternative to someone...What does EPC proffer as an alternative to someone who chooses to end their life? That they jump off a building or shoot their head off? While these are tried and true methods, should there not be some other effective solution available which isn't so...messy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com