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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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When Choices Become Obligations
It is all connotation
The commenter has made the wrong interpretation of the connotation of the ‘right to die’. The phrase ‘right to die’ does not mean it is a person’s duty to die because of old age in order to alleviate those around them, it means that the terminally ill have the right to chose whether to live in excruciating pain, or to end their own life and escape the pain. It is not referring to a person’s duty to their country, but rather to their individual rights.
And as far as individual rights go, people should have the ability to control their own life, and therefore have the ability to choose to end it when they are in extreme pain without the possibilty of relief. Individual rights should be protected, and as long as those are protected, situations like the one mentioned by the commenter will not happen.
- bloggernumber1
February 28, 2009 11:27AM
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