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Fri 30 Jan, 2004 11:20 pm
Do you think if a person has cancer and their going to go through all this pain but they have no chance of living that they should have a choice rather or not to receive lethal injection??
ok, ok, Montana.... you've made your point!
For the right price.
Every choice we allow people has to have a price,
or it just wouldn't work.
Sorry about the double post. I don't know how that happened, lol! This is not something I want to look overly anxious about.
Absolutely. When I had my cancer, I squirreled away a bunch of stuff that I could use, if things got too hairy. Fortunately, I never had to use it. I still keep the stuff around............just in case.
Well there was a doctor who said that he would be willing to do that for free, if the patient had cancer and had only 2months or under to live, he got arrested for practicing this.
Yup, unfortunately, it's against the law, which is why I'd have my own stash just like Phoenix and I'd take care of my own business when the pain became unbearable.
I dont need permission or an injection, the choice is always mine.
truth
Absoutely, Dys. What are they going to do to you, kill you? What do they call it, suicide by police? I've said elsewhere that it gives me some comfort to know that, under most circumstances, I do not have to die an extremely painful death. Some pain I can handle, but not an unreasonable amount. I have friends who were given very large doses of morphine at their request, and died with little pain and a lot of dignity.
truth
It is extremly cruel to deprive a person of either his life or his death.
JL, May I add "or his freedom to choose".
truth
Akamechsmith, yes in the ordinary sense of "freedom to choose." But this should not be taken to indicate a metaphysical bias on my part toward "free will" as opposed to "determinism." I don't take that distinction/issue seriously any more. Was that what you were referring to, or did I read too much into your question?
We should all have the freedom of choice, whether to live or die. However, if I decided I no longer wanted to live and was extremely ill, I would want the best "feel good" drugs on the market, to stay alive as long as possible, and be in a terrific mood!
truth
Misti, same here. Too bad our puritanical culture--at least that of the last generation who presently holds most of the power--would object to research to find a drug that would help us die ecstatically. But that would be sinful hedonism. How has the puritan been defined? Someone who suffers from the haunting dread that someone somewhere is enjoying himself.
jl and misti
I have had similar thoughts myself.
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