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To: Lane3 who wrote (4331)2/11/2003 7:18:36 PM
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This case would come under a grey area for me:
Is it assisting someone struggling and suffering in the throws of death, or does it come under the broader category of assisted suicide. Legally of course it is assisted suicide because we don't have another category to measure it by. Does it come under committing suicide as a human right or under the legitimate reign of the controlling authority.

I found this definition: A rule of being, operation, or change, so certain and constant that it is conceived of as imposed by the will of God or by some controlling authority; as, the law of gravitation; the laws of motion; the law heredity; the laws of thought; the laws of cause and effect; law of self-preservation.

I am wondering if I should turn myself in for running that stop sign a couple of months ago. It was on a back country road, I could see that no cars were coming in either direction on the cross roads, so I opted to blast thru it. Why should I worry that it was illegal? I saw no benifit to society in me stopping at that sign, I reasoned that I knew better in this instance than the controlling authority.

I wonder in the tragic case reported in this article, why it had to come to a matter of assistance. The woman had watched her sister die in similar circumstances. She was competent. Why did she not take responsibility for her own suicide and give the controlling authority the bird on the way out? Why is it necessary to involve another in violating the law of self preservation?

It is a matter of self-conscience vs self preservation. It seems inhumane to me to involve anyone else in determining its legitimacy.
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