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With names like Dr. Jack Kevorkian and Terri Schiavo making international headlines during the past few years, the complicated subject of euthanasia remains on everyone's mind. But when considering the plight of the terminally ill and their potential suffering, is "pulling the plug" a matter of dying with dignity or tragically playing God?
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Laws Against Suicide Are Based on Religious Taboos
- From Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights
By Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights - Advancing Objectivism
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Your religion, your morals, your choice
I agree wholeheartedly with the idea that religion should not play a part in society concerning those who do not share the same beliefs. It is perfectly acceptable for a religious conservative to choose to continue a life of illness, regardless of the amount of pain and suffering they must endure, in order to fulfill their duties to their God. However, we all need to realize that not all of us share the same beliefs, and the ideas of one religious group should not have the right to let their beliefs dictate what others do. Choosing to end one's own life because they are terminally ill, in pain, and unable to enjoy the life they are living, is the person's choice, and theirs alone; they are not harming anyone else by choosing to die. Critics of this may argue that they are causing emotional suffering for their loved ones when they choose to end their own life, but watching a loved one live a life of pain and suffering is often equally, if not more painful, than watching them pass away in peace. The feelings of people with both opinions as to which of these scenarios is worse should be equally considered.
- SSNickel
March 1, 2009 5:31PM
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Playing God
Conservatives. Always trying to wheedle their personal, religious-based morals into legislature. When will they learn.
Their argument against playing God doesn’t make sense, or else it backfires, because who’s to say what “playing God” is? Couldn’t one argue that keeping a body alive sheerly with modern medicine and technology is playing God? So keeping a terminally ill patient, or a person in a vegetative state, alive is just as much playing God as killing the patient is.
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