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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (10857)	10/23/1998 3:08:00 AM
From: pezz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

<<it may be that I have raised some points that have been satisfactorily settled long ago>> Unfortunately not. This seems to be the prevailing argument against euthanasia. It distresses me because it appears that the rebuttal is so obvious that I must be missing some thing.<< I think it behooves us to be very very careful. Euthanasia, potentially can be used against people to hasten their end when they really do not want to go>> Why oh why can't laws be structured to prevent this? How hard would that be? LIving will, testimony from family members in the case of comatose patients, whatever. In the case you use as an example the hospital broke the law plane and simple. << He used the argument that terminally ill deserved the right to a relatively painless death to justify the murder of those considered inferior >> Terminally ill = those considered inferior?? I don't think so. Are we so afraid of any Nazi misuse of the language as to frighten us away from the word and it's true meaning forever? I don't want to be disrespectful but "yes I want to die" "no I don't want to die "in the presence of a lawyer, family members ,whatever, as criteria should work , no? I don't understand why we can't draw the line on this one.All laws have a line that is drawn in some manner. At some point an activity changes from legal to illegal. Why not here? Sadly I can hear the nazis laughing from the grave. pez