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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Neocon who wrote (155183)1/4/2005 11:31:20 AM
From: GST  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
If the person is trying to commit suicide you then have the issue of whether that person has a right to kill himself. In some places, it is legal for a person to take their own life and in some places it is not. If a person has the right to kill himself and you act to "save" him, then your unilateral act would be an obstruction of that persons right. We now have related issues that led to the creation of living wills in which people can stop the state from keeping them alive under certain circumstances where they can no longer speak for themselves. My mother is an example of that -- she has a strict do not resuscitate clause and she would be most displeased if you saved her.
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