This is quite a thought-provoking topic that has caused me to question where I stand, yet tends to be strengthening my beliefs.
One must first examine their beliefs about plain ole suicide ahead of this assisted suicide business, and let's face it head on - suicide is self-murder. The person who commits suicide is murdering themself. So isn't a person who assists someone to commit suicide considered, as a minimum, as an accessory to murder? I think a case study would yield a strong yes.
Worldwide, even the most underdeveloped societies have laws against murder. The hypocrisy is quite insane. North Americans consider ourselves and our societies to be very good and proper. So how can assisted suicide be condoned? As an even greater example of hypocrisy, how can abortion be condoned?
I believe that life is sacred. We ourselves do not even possess the authority to end our own life. Giving someone else the authority to end our life for us (assisted suicide) is no different than self-murder. I shudder to think about the potential eternal consequences.
And no, unplugging a life-support system for someone who is brain-dead has nothing to do with murder. Hopefully that someone is an organ donor and gives someone else more life.
One must first examine their beliefs about plain ole suicide ahead of this assisted suicide business, and let's face it head on - suicide is self-murder. The person who commits suicide is murdering themself. So isn't a person who assists someone to commit suicide considered, as a minimum, as an accessory to murder? I think a case study would yield a strong yes.
Worldwide, even the most underdeveloped societies have laws against murder. The hypocrisy is quite insane. North Americans consider ourselves and our societies to be very good and proper. So how can assisted suicide be condoned? As an even greater example of hypocrisy, how can abortion be condoned?
I believe that life is sacred. We ourselves do not even possess the authority to end our own life. Giving someone else the authority to end our life for us (assisted suicide) is no different than self-murder. I shudder to think about the potential eternal consequences.
And no, unplugging a life-support system for someone who is brain-dead has nothing to do with murder. Hopefully that someone is an organ donor and gives someone else more life.