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Originally Posted by brianwspencer

While it's obviously not black & white in the most simple sense, it's absolutely black and white in my worldview -- the one where people live and let live.

Don't want to kill yourself? Then don't. But stop telling other people how to live their lives.

Perhaps it's a philosophical divide I can never bridge, but I simply can't see an intellectually honest argument that would be remotely persuasive in trying to say that a mentally capable adult with a terminal disease, with multiple doctors' opinions, who is 100% guaranteed to die a miserable, terrible death worse than any of us could ever imagine, should be denied the right to ask a professional to help them make their death the exact opposite, painless and peaceful.

Unless, of course, forcing people to endure massive, unthinkable, pain is your definition of "peace," and considering that you are a Republican...it very well may be.

I'm neither a republican or a Christian...reducing an argument to it's simplist terms is often beneficial in science...seldom in life. Your attitude that opposition to euthanasia = heartlessness and a desire to see folks suffer is repulsive!