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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (1097)	5/18/2001 9:45:52 AM
From: mph	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14610

Looking at it another way. Homocide is still against the law. The plug doesn't get pulled on vegetative patients until there has been a medical review and often judicial intervention. At least there are safeguards in place for these extreme situations where a person is being kept technically alive by machine. The problem comes in when you step away from the extreme situation and use of artificial measures. Where does the line get drawn? I was not suggesting that the states set up elaborate regulatory agencies. I see your point there. I guess, at bottom, what I'm really saying is that euthanasia per se should just be illegal. Again, the caveat of the vegetative patient being kept alive artificially. I believe that people have the right to specify no heroic efforts to keep them alive, which thus gives them the right to avoid being placed on machines in the first place. In that situation, I'd surely oppose efforts of family members to force the measures. Bottom line - personal liberty means personal choice. Not someone else deciding for you.