physician assisted suicide. If abortion is a medical procedure where it is legal to terminate the life of an unborn child who can not choose for themselves then why can't people use a medical procedure to choose to end their own lives? It really just does not make sense to me. I just want to know how one could be legal and not the other. I understand not using assisted suicide to end someones life who is perfectly healthy, but someone with a debilitating disease that will never recover.
Gleek2010-05-28T14:24:41Z
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Well there is something close to what you are talking about, it's called DNR or Do Not Resuscitate. It means that if you have cardiac or respiratory arrest, or are on advanced cardiac life support and you have filled out a DNR form then you basically are telling the doctors not to perform on you, which means to allow a natural death. But your question does make sense, I think it's different because people who want to commit suicide are already born and there is a chance to save them.
It's a slippery slope. where do you draw the line? what right do we have to decide who lives or dies? and often when someone expresses suicidal wishes they do not really want to die; often it is a cry out for help, love, companionship, understanding.
What kind of society do we want to live in? One in which life is only valuable when it is completely painless? Again, where do you draw the line? A society in which people are expendable if they are suffering? How could assisted-euthanasia give anyone hope? How is it in any way compassionate or humane?
And as for abortion, personally I think it's wrong as well.. I think it's horrible that we live in a society where some women have to kill their unborn children to keep their careers.. where some women use something as brutal as abortion as birth control.. where unborn children are not even seen as human. I think that is demented. I can understand why there are medical instances in which abortion is sadly necessary, but those constitute a minute fraction of the abortions being had (possibly even 1%?). I realize that it's a difficult decision for any woman to make, and I don't judge anyone who has had an abortion. But I cannot defend it.