Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths
by svieira on Thursday December 12, 2024 @10:25PM
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> I just can't be uncharitable enough to believe a person who has seen it first hand, that a person would embrace such unfettered cruelty as to deny a person living in constant hell a drop of water.
I have seen it first hand. Suicide is not a drop of water, it's a loaded .45.
That said there's a qualitative moral difference between easing someone's pain in a way that may hasten death and killing them to ease their pain. Almost no one who argues against MAID is arguing for "all medical interventions, forever".
I have seen it first hand. Suicide is not a drop of water, it's a loaded .45.
That said there's a qualitative moral difference between easing someone's pain in a way that may hasten death and killing them to ease their pain. Almost no one who argues against MAID is arguing for "all medical interventions, forever".