Chances are you're not a doctor. You don't understand pathology. You personally don't understand the mental anguish felt by those individuals suffering from a terminal and painful illness.
Your religion may prohibit this humane treatment but until your worldview starts producing tangible results on others who don't share your worldview, I cannot fathom your rational.
I suspect two main motives:
1. Religious indoctination.
2. The fear that giving in to death has some kind of ripple effect on society.
I think people who have more reasonable concerns, e.g. a future in which insurance companies vouch for assisted-suicide en masse, are a minority among those who oppose it.
Personally, i think too much is spent already on keeping old people, that have very little time and quality of life left, from falling apart. Just think of all the individuals withering away in retirement homes. It is this final part of life, where medical costs skyrocket, with questionable results. If it's private insurance, no issue there.
People could live with much less uptightness if death wasn't such a taboo in our society.
If a person wants to choose to die then it's their choice. I just don't want someone else to choose for me. It's not really that great of a leap that kind of thing could happen.
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Perfectly stated OP!!
"Religion is the opiate of the people" - Karl Marx
muh bible, muh conservativism, *beep* libturds... thats why
shareThere are a hell of a lot of people who were never taught to live and let live.
Look at the bitter fight just to allow gays to marry.
For the love of mike, the people who so vehemently oppose it, will never even be affected by it.
But you wouldn't know by listening to them.
They act like gays marrying is no different than someone sticking a hot poker through their eye and into their brain....
Something I'd like to see happen to most of'em.
Right-to-die laws should explicitly outlaw insurance companies from sticking their dirty, greedy fingers into the mix. Once that is settled...
It's something we should have been doing since it first became medically possible.
My father was an ordained minister with a bachelor's in theology. He never vocalized his support or objection to this sort of law. However April 15, 2014 he had enough of his end stage COPD he took a 38 and ended his life in my parent's bed. The point is, you don't know what you will do until death is looking you in the eye. He was to the point where he could not even go outside to get the mail. He would dream that he was in the desert and was very thirsty only to have woken up and found the oxygen has slipped off of his nose at night. While there wasn't a tremendous amount of pain associated with his COPD living was excruciating for him. He was a proud man who served in Vietnam and a man of God. I can't say for certain if he came to us and said he wanted to die with dignity how I would react. I don't think any of us know how we would feel until we are faced with it. All that being said, I don't think it is fair for us to say someone can't have that option because of our own personal beliefs. I understand why my father did what he did and my wanting him to still be here is incredibly selfish. I'm so glad he is resting now.
We all enjoy the maddness 'cuz we know we're gonna fade awayshare