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Originally Posted by Antitrust32
I dont think you understand what assisted suicide is. People who are in too much pain or do not have the functions to commit it, but want to end their pain, have someone like Dr. K assist them.
You saying "if someone else dicides to end it for them" is completely off base because the assistant is NOT deciding this, they are just helping with someones wishes.
I really have no idea how you and Cajun dont get this.
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Again, you are simplifying a complex issue....DR K has free will like the rest of us...he made the decision to end someone's life and he alone is responsible for the consequences. Just because someone asks you to do something changes nothing about free will...you, and you alone, make the decision! I worked 35 years with mentally ill folks and folks in all kinds of pain...seen far more suffering than anyone should have to...to suggest that I don't care about folk's pain is just wrong! When I worked in Piney Mt Nursing Home as Director of Soc Services, the first battle I fought was that the home REQUIRED every new admission to have a living will and that doctors...IN MY PRESENCE would often call family members and literally demand that they, as power of attorney, change wills that requested "heroic mesures" to DNR orders...if that's not deciding for someone, often against their expressed desires, I don't know what is??? And that is without government sanctioned euthanasia! Forgive me if I see this as somewhat forbodding!