Posted: 10/20/2008 7:03:04 AM EDT
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I like to get the HTF's views on Ballot Initiative 1000. I'm not asking you to divulge how you voted or plan to. I'm simply curious as to your personal feelings about the matter. Wiki Article on the Initiative |
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I do have serious questions. Will this lead to a Lebt Unwürdig Von Lebenc doctrine (lives unworthy of life). Granted the slippery slope may not always be a fair card, but this really makes one wonder. Who get’s to make the decision? Will insurance companies look more favorably on a medical bill for Euthanasia than another 6, months, 2 years, ect of treatment? What if the dying person wants to live as long as possible, but their family overrides it? |
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It's a tough one. The wife and I briefly discussed it a week or two ago. I guess if someone wants to go, then that is their choice, but I hope people in that situation think about their family and spend as much time as they can before making that decision. I would rather people have a Dr. assist them than eat the end of a 12ga. |
| This sort of thing has occurred under the table, so to speak, for a long, long time. I don't see anything good coming from making it a matter of .gov interest. Slippery slope is certainly a viable reason to argue against it. Just like throwing up, it happens a lot, but there's no need to make public policy about it. |
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The right of self determination is the most precious and powerful right that any single person is born with. Up to and including the ending of their own life should they deem necessary. It's not for me to tell others how they should live, nor how they should die. Nor is it the right of the state to tell "The People" how to live or die either. The fact that there are laws against people choosing to end their own lives is absurd. Instead of making a big hullabaloo about making it legal by passing a law saying so, how about they just quietly repeal the assinine laws that made it illegal and let doctors and patients decide this stuff quietly by themselves, as it should have been all along. |
+1 The anti-1000 folks are making it sound like anybody who's depressed is going to be offed by their doctor. If I have to see Sheen's face again with his sanctimonious speech, I could possibly vomit. I'm wondering why doctors are against it. Possibly because they stand to lose the gobs of $'s being spent to keep a dying person alive? |
i am right about the same as grumpy on this one...as long as it stays up to the individual and not get to where the state and docs decide some are not worthy of life....in some euro country i read that they passed similar laws and people with deformities, mental issues etc were being killed..... |
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