Last two points Ill make on this subject: -Dont tell people to stop judging just because some of us dont agree with this womans choice to kill herself. We are called to make judgments and discern between right and wrong. This stop judging thing is about the dumbest, most anti-intellectual, most pointless slogan you can possibly repeat. Of course we should judge this act, just as we should judge any act. The people who whine about judging arent actually upset about judging in and of itself, theyre upset that you judged it DIFFERENTLY. Besides, if Brittany Maynard had decided to kill herself and then done so, without making it into a national campaign, nobody would be talking about it. She purposefully put this decision in front of the entire nation -- writing op-eds, making videos, working on euthanasia campaigns -- which means she WANTS us to talk about it and think about it. But what she cant do is ask us to talk about this and think about it, and then require that we come to the same conclusions and think the same things as her. I have no reason to believe that she had that expectation, but apparently some of her supporters do. -Theres an argument I make in this post, about a third of the way through, and its something that Id love for the pro-euthanasia folks to actually read and then address. To summarize the point: suicide is a personal choice. Its the wrong choice, but it is, at least, a personal choice made by an individual and carried about by the same individual. Euthanasia, on the other hand, is not just a personal choice. It does not involve only the suicidal person. If I am seeking euthanasia, it is not just a matter between myself and I. Euthanasia involves, by definition, other parties. Other parties which include both the medical establishment and the government. Now, only the most radical pro-euthanasia folks believe that literally anyone, of any age, in any condition should be eligible for doctor assisted suicide. Both the law and public opinion calls for the patient to be terminally or at least chronically ill with some kind of debilitating and likely deadly illness. What this means is that the suicidal person must believe their lives to be pointless and worthless, and the medical establishment and governing authorities have to AGREE with that assessment. When a doctor prescribes the poison pill, he is endorsing, condoning, and facilitating the destruction of life. This sets a precedent where both the government and our doctors start to look at innocent life as something that, in certain contexts, is expendable and fundamentally worthless. If you cannot see how profoundly hazardous this precedent is, then I do not believe you are thinking hard enough about this: theblaze/contributions/there-is-nothing-brave-about-suicide/
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:40:55 +0000
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