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Do you think people have the right to end their life (and have a “good” death)? Do you believe in euthanasia (when someone other than the patient ends the patient’s life as painlessly as possible? How do you feel about passive euthanasia (when a person does not try to resuscitate the patient)? Or, how do […]
Posted at: February 20th, 2008 - 7:51 am - Number of Comments » 1
OK, for the sake of debate, let’s assume for a minute that my sister, Cindy, committed suicide with assistance—one of several theories about her death. (That’s illegal in Canada, by the way, but suicide isn’t—suicide and attempted suicide were decriminalized in 1972. But in the USA, only Oregon allows physician-assisted suicide.) So, following the assisted […]
Posted at: January 19th, 2008 - 8:21 am - Number of Comments » 1
Would you help someone end their life (if you believed they were of sound mind) if they were in extreme pain (whether mentally because of intolerable harassment, or physically)? Is it possible to set aside any religious doctrine (the belief that only God should determine the time for death) to debate this issue? Did you […]
Posted at: December 6th, 2007 - 7:53 am - Number of Comments » 0