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Honey wrote: There is a massive difference between easing someone's pain even if it shortens their life, and bumping them off for convenience and profit.
It makes no sense.
If the NHS has no objection to a life being voluntarily shortened, they can jolly well up the pain meds, cant they?
In Canada, they encourage their citizens to end their lives even if they have tinnitus or IBS. I don't know why people are so blind it's called eugenics.
Wyot
Downing Street Cat wrote:
My own belief is that we move on to another life---we don't come back here---but emerge in another dimension. Nothing to do with religion. Let folk be born again. I hope I'm right.
If you just give the other dimension a name - say heaven? - then that sounds quite religious to me DSC...
Honey
There is a massive difference between easing someone's pain even if it shortens their life, and bumping them off for convenience and profit.
It makes no sense.
If the NHS has no objection to a life being voluntarily shortened, they can jolly well up the pain meds, cant they?
hedda
Downing Street Cat wrote: For me it's simple. Allow someone to slowly suffer, deteriorate and die...or allow them the dignity of a peaceful death without all the mess, money and tremendous heartbreak involved. I went through all of that pain with my Ma. Never again. My own belief is that we move on to another life---we don't come back here---but emerge in another dimension. Nothing to do with religion. Let folk be born again. I hope I'm right.
Good points Larry.
One big problem is the medical industry just won't prescribe drugs that ease the pain of old age for the ludicrous reason a suffering elder may bloody feel good on such pills.