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Originally posted by Penske_Account
Sure, as long as the person to die has actually expressed the desire.
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I think on this point you differ from many of the people that were so upset about this case. I don't think Delay and friends really cared if she expressed a desire to die. From their perspective only God can decide if some one should die and therefore humans should do everything they can to protect and preserve life under all circumstances. Actually with Delay it is just innocent life (he is a pro-death penalty protestant) but with Catholics like Jeb Bush, it is all life, even non-innocent life.
I think these people have fallen prey to the slippery slope argument. They fear that if you let someone who is in intense pain to choose to die that this could lead to a culture of death and pretty soon you will have another holocaust. That is why you should not make decisions on what is just or unjust based on fear. I think everyone deep down believes that if someone lives everyday in intense pain, and there is no hope that the pain will ever stop, that they should be allowed to end their own life. I think peoples fear (like their fear of homosexuals) prevents them from seeing what is truly just and right in these circumstances.
