RE: The Right to Die (ZOMGitsCriss)

Response to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo9kK-iZB5U

k-rina - "Assisted Suicide" (This is the blog post where I cited the passage)
http://cristinarad.blogspot.com/2010/09/assisted-suicide.html

Emanuel, Linda L. (1998). Regulating How We Die: The Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide. Harvard University Press.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Regulating-How-Die-Surrounding-Physician/dp/0674666542

*Note: there is probably a lot more that I could have discussed. I tried to keep the response brief. If I did not sound coherent in this video, I apologize.

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• euthanasia
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[Blndrfist]

Your childish idea about an "international law" belies a great ignorance of the nature of international relations and what it means to make a law in the first place. Your tendancy is to portray issues in terms of absolutes. Sorry, but the world is not black/white; it is grey. The interest of positive public policy (in civilized countries) can outweigh a supposed "right" to assisted suicide or even a "right" to "control" your own body.

[bubbamickmac]

@Blndrfist "it was just a statement of fact about you."

well then, you have no business being here in the comments section if you're not going to conduct yourself in a fair manner.

as for an "international law," I realized BEFORE I made the video that it was unrealistic; however, it doesn't mean we can't work towards a goal.

i hope this is the last time I ever have to engage w/ you troll.

thanks anyway...

[HigherPlanes]

I feel an undescribable sadness that society, but particularly the government, has made life so unbearable that some people are contemplating suicide. I mean just think about it, they make life so horrendous that you chose suicide over living. I think this is the ultimate indicator that things are not okay and perhaps that's why open debates are not welcome.

[bubbamickmac]

@HigherPlanes

Maybe this isn't the right discussion for you...

thanks:)

[ZOMGitsCriss]

I could have done a better job with that blog, was kinds rushed and my wording was not that fortunate. But thanks for bringing it up :)

[bubbamickmac]

@ZOMGitsCriss Hey, nobody's perfect.

I thought the blog post was fine. I brought up that particular passage from it because I think it refuted a stereotype regarding this issue that is depicted here in the US about how suicide is always an immoral act. What this all comes down to is who is really suffering. Teens do need help and are suffering emotionally; however, it's really people who have terminal illnesses that we should allow them to go if they want to.

Thanks again 4 the video :)

[bubbamickmac]

@Blndrfist

whatever troll, you can get off this comment section. using ad homienums is not a good form of argument.

thanks, now leave, and don't tell me to get an education.

[Blndrfist]

@Sleighton10001 Yes, euthanasia is different from assisted suicide; you're absolutely right. Euthanasia can be done WITHOUT the consent of the subject; case in point, animals. We routinely euthanize animals without any consent from them. Meanwhile, assisted suicide directly IMPLIES that the person wished to end his life; it implies CONSENT. The term assisted suicide is perfectly adequate and appropriate, which makes you a complete moron.

[ngraz91]

At the same time of "freedom of bodies"; if a fetus is an unborn child, wouldn't killing it be taking away it's freedom of life? Just as it would be to disallow forcing a women to birth a child. That is a lose lose.

[HigherPlanes]

@bubbamickmac What makes you say that? I'm not sure I follow you.

[bubbamickmac]

@superfuzz

well, that sucks. some people just need to wake up.

thanks ;-)