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Spin Zone / Re: Would you support overturning Roe-v-Wade?
« on: April 13, 2017, 10:37:05 AM »I hope that when I get to a certain point, I can opt for euthanasia. I don't want anyone else making that decision for me as long as I am able to make my own decision, but I don't want any bureaucrat or religious zealot telling me I have to suffer because of their moral opinion.
Agree, self chosen euthanasia is an option I'd like to be able to consider. Making the choice for someone else should definitely remain illegal unless they are literally a vegetable and cannot make the choice for themselves. That would be like any healthcare power of attorney that you grant. However, the problem is that it becomes a very gray area when we are talking about old sick people with declining judgment and cognition. They become easily manipulated and the financial incentive to have them gone becomes huge. But on the other hand, we put down our dogs out of love and not wanting them to suffer. It seems morally wrong to deny our fellow humans the same mercy. As for the religious argument, I cannot believe a loving God wants us to suffer unduly and would object if we hurried along our demise a bit.
But it also becomes a slippery slope. Painful terminal cancer and are going to die soon anyway, it makes sense. But now you have people claiming things like mental depression, or inconvenient but not terminal disabilities, as a reason for doing away with themselves. That is just suicide, not euthanasia. Part of me says, well let them if they're that miserable. Good riddance. But another part of me says there would be too much risk of financial exploitation. We shouldn't open that Pandora's box. It's just another way to devalue human life and that always seems to lead to some government then stepping in and making the decision FOR you. Maybe that's the ultimate danger; government often tends to mandate things that began as optional choices. Once the government is paying for your nursing home, euthanasia, if legal, could too easily get out of our control.