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shome42 · 12-20-2004, 11:34 AM

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Assisted suicide happens much more than is commonly known. From personal experience I know that when AIDS patients...

So this sort of thing doesn't happen until the patient is in really bad condition, almost dead pretty much? See, that's part of what makes me so mad. If I ever get word that I'm terminally ill, I'd like to kill myself way before I'm bed ridden, and the nurse is dropping off morphine at the house.

BDS · 12-20-2004, 03:40 PM

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His Noodly Appendage · 12-20-2004, 04:57 PM

I agree with IAmMoose. You'd likely just make the position worse, not better. Shocked people rarely act in useful ways.

But I do hugely agree that the situation sucks.

Can someone PLEASE tell me why a country that practices capital punishment for the sake of petty revenge should have the right to deny a clean death to those in the greatest suffering?

jbc

Carl · 12-20-2004, 05:55 PM

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Gooch's dad · 12-20-2004, 06:01 PM

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B34RZ0R · 12-20-2004, 09:33 PM

In God's favorite country? I doubt it! Be compassionate to the desire of someone who has been given a death sentance by disease - bah!
(hey that's not meant to be inflamitory - just sarcastic

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Being someone who has witnessed someone die - rather quickly of a terminal disease I wouldn't wish that on anyone; though at the same time I can understand the 'patient' wanting to hang around as long as possible.
(ok damnit now I'm gettin all teary eyed - cursed emotions)

Jesus Tap-Dancin' Christ · 12-20-2004, 11:18 PM

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I dunno .. if you offend enough people - and blowing your brains all over them is kinda offensive - then they are less likely to agree with your cause, I would think.

Those Civil Rights marhcers never knew what was good for them, eh?

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Personally I'd rather blow my brains out than take an overdose which is how most euthanasia is done. But that is beside the point.

ODing would be like falling asleep, without the whole waking up part. It may be scary to think of like that, but guess what? It makes the mortician's life easier, to say the very least, and it certainly would be easier on your family.

IamMoose · 12-21-2004, 02:49 AM

The civil rights marches were an entirely different thing. There's offending people and there's offending people, you know?

Julian · 12-21-2004, 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by shome42

So this sort of thing doesn't happen until the patient is in really bad condition, almost dead pretty much? See, that's part of what makes me so mad. If I ever get word that I'm terminally ill, I'd like to kill myself way before I'm bed ridden, and the nurse is dropping off morphine at the house.

Look, I think anyone has the right to do themselves in whenever they want. If they are unable to do so themselves, they should have the right to ask someone else to help them. I don't think you and I disagree on this topic.

Julian

BDS · 12-21-2004, 09:51 AM

I think everyone should kill himself in public, since we are all terminally ill (in a sense).

Also, it would solve the population problem in India.

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B34RZ0R Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Lost in the Ether, Minnesota Posts: 1,436	In God's favorite country? I doubt it! Be compassionate to the desire of someone who has been given a death sentance by disease - bah! (hey that's not meant to be inflamitory - just sarcastic) Being someone who has witnessed someone die - rather quickly of a terminal disease I wouldn't wish that on anyone; though at the same time I can understand the 'patient' wanting to hang around as long as possible. (ok damnit now I'm gettin all teary eyed - cursed emotions)

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His Noodly Appendage Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 6,513	I agree with IAmMoose. You'd likely just make the position worse, not better. Shocked people rarely act in useful ways. But I do hugely agree that the situation sucks. Can someone PLEASE tell me why a country that practices capital punishment for the sake of petty revenge should have the right to deny a clean death to those in the greatest suffering? jbc

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