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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
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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March 1, 2009 8:46PM
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