What are we, dogs? Are we animals that this is being considered 'put to sleep'? Only the government should have the right to end someone's life. If someone (maybe a doctor, maybe not) shoots a 79 year old in the head because they asked them to, it would be murder. The same would apply if the 79 year old shot themself in the head; they would be murdering themselves.
I'm confused. You believe the government is the only entity with the right to end a person's life. You believe that killing yourself is equivalent to "murdering" yourself, and should not be allowed.
It really sounds like you're saying that the government owns people's lives.
I don't see why there's anything so special about the government. Sure, they're elected, but that doesn't give them any kind of rights to tell me what to do with my life. I'm still in charge of that. I still own my life.
And because I own my life, I have the right to end it, if I so choose. Why does the government have more right to my life than I do?
I think you need to seriously reconsider the kind of powers you'd like to give the government. I find your position on this issue rather scary, frankly.
So in response to the actual situation posed in the first post, it should not have been allowed. The 79 year old 'was not sick or dying' and thus should not have been allowed to die.
For some reason, when its just an old person and a lethal injection, people find it OK.
I find it OK no matter who does it. No matter if it's an eighteen year old or a ninety year old. I believe the a person owns his or her life, and therefore has the right to end it, if they so choose.
What do you believe? That the government owns it? That God owns it? That nobody owns it?
All I know is that I've always felt like the life I'm living was
mine. Not God's, and not the government's. So I don't know why they should have any control over when it ends. That control should also be mine, if I choose to exercise it.
Well it's horrible i still can't understand why a doctor helping her to die....and it is wrong to video tape her if she is in pain i'm sure their is a few things she can eat to make her feel better ......
everyone should live their life tp the fullest.
This woman knew what she wanted. She wasn't stupid. She intentionally reached out to this doctor. She allowed him to videotape her, and hoped that doing this would help to promote the cause of assisted suicide. The videotaping was not immoral, because she consented to it, and she was not crazy, senile or stupid, as far as I can tell.
And you're "sure their is a few things she can eat to make her feel better"?
Really, I don't think that her problems would have been solved by a nice juicy steak. Eating a nice steak wouldn't stop her from having to live in a nursing home. I think it's really incredible that your solution is just to have her eat something delicious, as if that would solve all the problems in the world.