tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post6304094498302961664..comments2024-03-28T09:15:04.144-04:00Comments on Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Euthanasia Campaigner shows signs of wavering on the issue.Alex Schadenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-87505053500462736752011-09-08T22:56:49.439-04:002011-09-08T22:56:49.439-04:00Thank you for your comment Margaret.
As long as y...Thank you for your comment Margaret.<br /><br />As long as you continue to care for your husband, I hope it will build within you an awe for the human person, even when that person is experiencing difficult circumstances.<br /><br />Someday, I hope you will agree that legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide directly threatens the lives of people with vulnerable conditions, especially when they are experiencing existential questioning and pain, which is natural to the human person.Alex Schadenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-23022336267449950952011-09-08T18:40:48.804-04:002011-09-08T18:40:48.804-04:00I'm utterly astonished that my recent work, an...I'm utterly astonished that my recent work, and especially my account of my husband Brooke Hopkins' bicycle accident and resulting spinal cord injury that has rendered him quadriplegic, has been interpreted in this way. No, I am absolutely not changing my mind about my support for physician aid in dying, although I certainly am persuaded that watching someone you love make this choice would be phenomenally hard. Of course, watching someone you love suffer a genuinely intolerable life when they could not make this choice would be phenomenally hard too. <br /><br />What's the most effective way to Alex Shadenberg's conjecture? Please listen. It's just flatly wrong if you think I'm "wavering" or likely to change my mind and join the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. On the contrary, I am more and more convinced that someone like my husband should have the choice about whether to continue his life (and he does already have the legal right to have the various technologies that are keeping him alive discontinued), even if it would be deeply painful for me to lose him.<br /><br />I'm grateful, though, if you've taken the three minutes each needed to watch the pair of multimedia presentations the Salt Lake Tribune has done, and which have won a number of awards. I think these short pieces will help to clarify both what Brooke thinks and feels, and what I think and feel as well.<br /><br />Peggy Battin<br /><br />http://extras.sltrib.com/multimedia/2010/LearningToLiveAgain/index.html<br /><br />http://extras.sltrib.com/multimedia/2010/TragicMetamorphosis/index.htmlMargaret Battinnoreply@blogger.com