Now, I've got nothing wrong with requested euthanasia - you've got a terminal illness, you're in pain, go for it. It's your life. And I can see how somebody in a coma or on life support might've had the foresight to tell people ahead of time "this is what I want". With luck, they haven't changed their minds. But I don't see how you can decide who does and does not have free will like that.
And spina bifida? Please. Isn't that non-terminal? And thus violating the rules I think I saw stated?
There's more to the requested kind than meets the eye, but I agree with you on the non-requested kind. Also I agree on the idea that people have the right to control their own lives, but the requested kind doesn't give the control it purports to give, and in fact takes away some of that exact kind of control.
If you're interested, this group (http://www.notdeadyet.org/) has a fair bit of information from a perspective that's often ignored in what's usually portrayed in the media as a two-sided debate. My stance is very similar to theirs, for very similar reasons.
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Date: 2004-12-01 11:03 pm (UTC)"Termination of life without request"?
Over here, we call that murder.
Now, I've got nothing wrong with requested euthanasia - you've got a terminal illness, you're in pain, go for it. It's your life. And I can see how somebody in a coma or on life support might've had the foresight to tell people ahead of time "this is what I want". With luck, they haven't changed their minds. But I don't see how you can decide who does and does not have free will like that.
And spina bifida? Please. Isn't that non-terminal? And thus violating the rules I think I saw stated?
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Date: 2004-12-01 11:14 pm (UTC)If you're interested, this group (http://www.notdeadyet.org/) has a fair bit of information from a perspective that's often ignored in what's usually portrayed in the media as a two-sided debate. My stance is very similar to theirs, for very similar reasons.
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Date: 2004-12-01 11:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-01 11:20 pm (UTC)Are you taking a leaf out of my brother's book? :-P
(No offense to my brother if he stumbles across this, but that's exactly the sort of thing he'd say.)
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Date: 2004-12-01 11:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-01 11:30 pm (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/users/wakasplat/85240.html