Does a person have the right to end their life? (illegal, drug)
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Those who believe in God don't have that right. We believe that God gives us life and he is the only one who should take it away.
Those who don't, I guess have the right.
I have no problem with you believing that you do not have the right to end you own life, but I should be free to make the decision for myself based on my own beliefs.
Those who believe in God don't have that right. We believe that God gives us life and he is the only one who should take it away.
Those who don't, I guess have the right.
I believe in God. I believe a person should be allowed to die with dignity. I believe it's between them and their God, irrespective of YOUR belief about what their "rights" may or may not be.
You can assign all kinds of moral platitudes to suicide; but the fact is, if one want to end their own life...<<platitude alert>> "there ain't thing one you can do about it".
You can assign all kinds of moral platitudes to suicide; but the fact is, if one want to end their own life...<<platitude alert>> "there ain't thing one you can do about it".
Then you have bureaucrats place regulations and restrictions on it.
Then you have boards who set standards for who can have an assisted suicide.
Then you have mandates.
The problem is this....who decides when a life should end? Was the person coerced? Life insurance greed will come into play.
It's a slippery slope.
Right, right.
Because whenever something is legalized, it ends up being mandated.
That's why repealing prohibition has led to mandatory alcohol consumption, it's why we have compulsory voting, and its why firearm ownership is mandatory.
Oh, wait...
And the reason none of those things have come to pass is that the 'slippery slope' nonsense you're peddling is a fallacy. Logical Fallacy: Slippery Slope
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Here is a related case where a husband killed his wife after the wife begged to be put out of her misery facing dying a slow death. I think the prosecution of the husband should have never happened in the first place.
Here is a related case where a husband killed his wife after the wife begged to be put out of her misery facing dying a slow death. I think the prosecution of the husband should have never happened in the first place.
I can see a problem with this type of defense, the problem being, what is stopping a husband or wife from killing their spouse then claiming "she/he begged me to end their life"
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