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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
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I do not see enough evidence to support this argument. Clearly Governor Lamm is being very irrartional. Show me someone else who says the same thing. The Terri Schiavo case and the other case presented are harly about an elderly person that we just want to get out of the way. Those are both tragic situations, but they have been going on for years. In the Terri Schiavo article thirteen years had passed! Terri was stilll in the same state. I can understand her parents not wanting to lose her, but was she really the daughter that raised? She is piling up mountains of medical bills that someone in her family is going to have to pay, and she is monopolizing equipment that could be used for someone else. They gave Terri a lot of effort, and they should probably move on. They may even find more peace.
The life or death question has many different aspects. Pulling the plug on someone who is unconscious, and helping a person pass peacefully with a lethal injection need to be differentiated because in the second case, the person is definitely able to make a statement about what they want.
- StriveforYourDreams
March 1, 2009 9:47AM
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I agree with the comment made about Governor Lamm's irrationality. There is a world of difference between an elderly person who is content with their life and a terminally ill patient who is leading a life of pain and suffering. The point here is about the CHOICE about the end of one's own life. Of course a person who is facing death and accepts it has a right to live as long as possible, but why allow this person to end their life the way they want to and not allow someone who is suffering to have the same opportunity? An elderly person has no more obligation to die as a terminally ill person has an obligation to remain alive.
- SSNickel
March 1, 2009 5:56PM
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