Because what scares me isn’t the deciding factor here. We all have obligations to society and to each other. Allowing people to kill themselves, and requiring medical professionals to be involved in that process, makes a mockery of a system which is fundamentally intended to preserve life.
No. She is a coward because she chose to OD and drift off into nonexistence painlessly instead of choosing to live and face whatever might come thereafter.
You also:
- Never personally examined her and
- Aren’t medically qualified in the first place.
Right?
Smapti is starting to remind me of Lord Voldemort, what with his whole fear of death thing.
What obligations? Unless you have personal knowledge the she was denying the medical profession some sort of input that they had requested of her, the only thing I can think of that she denied anyone was months of painful memories that would last a lifetime.
I am as entitled to have an opinion on the subject as you are.
Ah, ok. So what you’re saying is that she had a life of fear, pain, and horror ahead of her, a life far worse than mere death alone, before her inevitable death. Is that right?
I’ll take months of painful memories over months of mourning any day. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone in my family to have died sooner.
As do we all.
The obligation to live and to strive to improve the lives of others, because this is the only life we get and ain’t noone else gonna make it better for us.
And how was she going to do that lying in bed wracked with pain?
No, we don’t.
The same way Jean-Dominique Bauby did?
Or maybe you think we’d have been better off if he’d just been allowed to die after his stroke.
Ah, ok. So you think she made a smart choice to avoid that - to avoid the scariest part of death, the dying.
No, I don’t. It’s dishonest to eat your cake and have it too.
- I think it was his choice to make.
- It’s not the same at all, because she didn’t have the choice between living painfully and dying. Her choice was between dying painfully and dying.
What’s the difference? All living results inevitably in dying.
Dishonest and smart are antonyms?
Therefore, a person should not have local or general anethesia when undergoing surgery. They are being cowardly by choosing not to experience the pain of surgery. And dishonest by trying to attain the benefits of surgery without experiencing the pain of undergoing the procedure.