Euthanasia Blues

A Disability Rights perspective on legalized euthanasia and physician assisted suicide

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• assisted
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[Perrine234]

Just because you find dignity in suffering doesn't mean that everyone does. And it certainly doesn't mean that everyone should be forced to suffer until their "natural" death.

[normemma]

Uh..I never claimed there is dignity in suffering. I'm not against euthanasia. I'm against LEGALIZING euthanasia. Given that DNR's and "slow codes" are commonly assigned to disabled people without their consent, its evident many medical professionals as well as many in society believe that disabled people aren't worth saving. Legalizing euthanasia would be the first step towards the genocide of disabled people.

[Perrine234]

But people can already commit suicide by refusing artificial feeding and life-saving/sustaining treatment. Should the right to refuse treatment be revoked?

[normemma]

Sigh... Do your homework. Refusing medical treatment is already legal. No one is questioning that. Its legalizing the intentional initiation of death (irrespective of consent) that will jeopardize the lives of sick, elderly, and disabled people.

[JohnLeguizamo1]

How cruel certain people are to not let certain people who are suffering die,

those people think they know what your going through,

what the fuck do you know about the pain im in, your not in by body,

i dont know if its them not understanding or them being selfish(selfish reason to want to save someones life), but all i know is its fucked up the government does not provide a painless way to kill yourself, leaving you to go to extremes to do it which makes it even harder to do.....

[JohnLeguizamo1]

@normemma what if we legalize it only under that persons consent.....then how will it be genocide? alot of old people want to die too.....shit alot of "people" want to die.

[Surpulicious]

@normemma Personally, I think everyone should have the right to die. If they don't want to live, it should be their choice, why have them around to suffer and make the rest of us miserable.

[Surpulicious]

@JohnLeguizamo1 TURN OFF THE FUCKING CAPS LOCK KEY YOU FUCKING INBRED DONKEY FUCKING SHEEP FONDLING ASS REAMING PIECE OF CUNT DISCHARGE. Seriously dude...

[JohnLeguizamo1]

IM NOT ATTACKING RELIGIONS....IM ATTACKING IT WHEN IT TURNS INTO A FORM OF "CONTROL". I MEAN......IF YOU BELIEVE IN GOD AND IT HELPS YOU GET THROUGH YOUR DAY.....I DONT SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT....BUT IF YOUR TRYING TO DENY SOMEONE "PAINLESS ASSISSTED SUICIDE" BECAUSE YOU THINK ITS A "SIN" THEN THATS JUST STRAIGHT SELFISH......MEANING THAT YOU NO LONGER LOOK TO RELIGION AS A WAY TO FEEL GOOD BUT AS A WAY TO IMPOSE YOUR BELIEFS ON OTHERS......JUST ANOTHER STORY OF TYPICAL HUMAN BULLSHIT

[JohnLeguizamo1]

EVERYONES LIVES ARE DIFFERENT....THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE LOVE TO "GENERALIZE". DISREGARDING THE FACT THAT WE LIVE 2 SEPERATE LIVES, THE OTHER PERSON WILL SAY, "I CLIMBED OUT OF DEPRESSION SO YOU CAN". THAT STATEMENT MIGHT WORK ON SOME PEOPLE BUT FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE JUST TIRED OF LIFE AND ALL ITS BULLSHIT, IT WONT WORK. THESE TYPE OF PEOPLE LOVE TO PROJECT THEIR OWN STORY AND TRY TO GENERALIZE YOURS WITH THEIRS.......FRANKLY.....ITS BULLSHIT....

[JohnLeguizamo1]

AND PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK ALL DEPRESSION CAN BE CURED.....OF COURSE MANY HAVE CLIMBED OUT OF DEPRESSION BUT....MANY MANY PEOPLE CANNOT. AND THESE PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN PAIN WITH NO WAY OUT BECAUSE THE "LAW" DOESNT ALLOW IT....ITS BULLSHIT.....ITS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS HOW SOME PEOPLE HAVE NEVER BEEN REALLY DOWN JUST GO ALONG WITH THE BANDWAGON BY AGREEING WITH ANTI-EUTHANASIA PEOPLE. BUT THERE ARE ALSO PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN DOWN AND SAY YOU CAN GET OUT OF IT....ALL I HAVE TO SAY TO THOSE PEOPLE IS

[JohnLeguizamo1]

YOU SEE PEOPLE PICK RELIGIONS BASED ON THEIR OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. DEPENDING ON WHERE THEY GREW UP, WHO TAUGHT THEM, WHAT EVENTS THEY SEE ARE HAPPENING AROUND THEM. THAT IS WHY THERE IS NO 1 RELIGION. THERE ARE MANY RELIGIONS BECAUSE RELIGIONS ARE JUST WAYS OF THOUGHT TO HELP YOU GET THROUGH THE DAY. RELIGIONS ARE BASICALLLY JUST THE "ANCIENT WAY" OF THERAPY. PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY IS THE NEW MODERN FOR OF THERAPY FOR THE HUMAN MIND. THINK ABOUT IT.

[JohnLeguizamo1]

BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTAND LIFE THRU THE "SCREEN" OF CHRISTIANS BELIEFS. SO IF WE LEGALIZE ASSISTED SUICIDE FOR ANYONE NOT JUST THE TERMINALLY ILL......THEN THESE TYPE OF PEOPLE WOULD LITERALLY GET OFFENDED AND TRY TO PUT YOU IN JAIL. BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN SELFISH BELIEFS. I MEAN.....THERE ARE SO MANY RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD.....WHICH ONE IS THE RIGHT NOW? THERE IS NOT F UCKEN "RIGHT" ONE PEOPLE.....ITS WHATEVER YOU WANT TO BELIEVE OR MAKES SENSE TO YOU

[JohnLeguizamo1]

i dont like to use the world christians because its a big generalization. Right now im talking about specific christians that do not believe in euthanasia because of their "own beliefs". Can you see how SELFISH that is? Behind all the words that this type of christian is saying. that person is not saying its really a sin.....that person is REALLY SAYING...."YOUR INTERFERING WITH MY BELIEFS". THINK ABOUT IT.....it would DESTROY their "belief(something that makes their life worth living".