what some of the commenters in here I don't think realize, is that this likely.. will end up being something where the state begins to strongly encourage disabled people to end their own life. Do Not Trust Leftists.
On the basic principle, I agree that a person should have bodily autonomy, including the right to end one's own life when one no longer wishes to continue living. It's not a choice I think should be common, but people with extreme disability or in extreme pain can, with modern medical technology, be kept alive, even when they have no effective quality of life. Prolonging life in such situations may cross the line into torture. Only the individual can determine that, and he has to square that choice with his God. The Catholics in here will appreciate that point, but should also appreciate that God granted Man agency as well, including the choice to give up God's gift of life.
All that said, I do NOT believe it is government's role to be making that choice for another, either in the affirmative or negative. Right now it does. It always acts to preserve life. In an ideal world, it would assert no such authority.
However, Leftists like to abuse power. They like socialized healthcare systems and would quite happily encourage old people to kill themselves to save a buck. They'd pressure them saying it's for the children, and it's selfish to "waste medical resources," etc. Hell, I have no doubt they'd order docs to encourage it, or set the rules about treatment to default to refusing life-saving care. You'd get a DNR whether you want it or not because they're not going to pay another dime for the old geezers. These are the people that shipped COVID infected people into nursing homes purely to cull the weak and frail, cut costs at the hospitals who would've had to quarantine them in inpatient beds, and conveniently boosted their own reimbursement from CMS in the process. People can and will behave in evil ways with ends-justify-the-means rationale if we give them a loophole.
It would be immoral to not consider the potential for abuse. Assisted suicide won't always have the Kevorkian protections to ensure this is a genuine desire and there is no coercion. See Holland and Portugal for evidence of that.
Suicide is self murder. "Thou Shall Not Kill" is one of the Ten Commandments. So, suicide is a sin in God's eyes. If God meant for man to be able to commit suicide freely of his own accord, it would've been covered in the Commandments as a foot note to murder. Sorry, but you can't beg God for forgiveness AFTER your dead. Doesn't work that way. And no Christian nation should have laws on the books legalizing the practice.
Now, I don't care what others do with their bodies. But, I know Catholicism, and NOWHERE does it say the Catholic faith is fine with suicide. In fact, they say the opposite. So does every other major Christian faith. And Judaism. The only major religion to espouse suicide is Islam, and even then, there's strict rules to follow when "martyring" one's self thru suicide.
The suicide question is why Dr. Kevorkian started "assisted" suicide. He was trying to take the "ownership" of committing the act away from the patient so they could be "right" under God's Law. But, it's STILL suicide. A self made decision to end one's life, and an afront to God's Law.
God did give man agency over himself, PROVIDED that Man's Laws follow the Ten Commandments. Suicide does not follow God's Law, therefore has no place in Man's Society.
I'd like to clarify the commandment as Thou Shall Not Murder, as many people have rightfully killed in God's name and with God's blessing throughout the entirety of human history. Completely agree on the suicide part though.
what some of the commenters in here I don't think realize, is that this likely.. will end up being something where the state begins to strongly encourage disabled people to end their own life. Do Not Trust Leftists.
Exactly.
On the basic principle, I agree that a person should have bodily autonomy, including the right to end one's own life when one no longer wishes to continue living. It's not a choice I think should be common, but people with extreme disability or in extreme pain can, with modern medical technology, be kept alive, even when they have no effective quality of life. Prolonging life in such situations may cross the line into torture. Only the individual can determine that, and he has to square that choice with his God. The Catholics in here will appreciate that point, but should also appreciate that God granted Man agency as well, including the choice to give up God's gift of life.
All that said, I do NOT believe it is government's role to be making that choice for another, either in the affirmative or negative. Right now it does. It always acts to preserve life. In an ideal world, it would assert no such authority.
However, Leftists like to abuse power. They like socialized healthcare systems and would quite happily encourage old people to kill themselves to save a buck. They'd pressure them saying it's for the children, and it's selfish to "waste medical resources," etc. Hell, I have no doubt they'd order docs to encourage it, or set the rules about treatment to default to refusing life-saving care. You'd get a DNR whether you want it or not because they're not going to pay another dime for the old geezers. These are the people that shipped COVID infected people into nursing homes purely to cull the weak and frail, cut costs at the hospitals who would've had to quarantine them in inpatient beds, and conveniently boosted their own reimbursement from CMS in the process. People can and will behave in evil ways with ends-justify-the-means rationale if we give them a loophole.
It would be immoral to not consider the potential for abuse. Assisted suicide won't always have the Kevorkian protections to ensure this is a genuine desire and there is no coercion. See Holland and Portugal for evidence of that.
Suicide is self murder. "Thou Shall Not Kill" is one of the Ten Commandments. So, suicide is a sin in God's eyes. If God meant for man to be able to commit suicide freely of his own accord, it would've been covered in the Commandments as a foot note to murder. Sorry, but you can't beg God for forgiveness AFTER your dead. Doesn't work that way. And no Christian nation should have laws on the books legalizing the practice.
Now, I don't care what others do with their bodies. But, I know Catholicism, and NOWHERE does it say the Catholic faith is fine with suicide. In fact, they say the opposite. So does every other major Christian faith. And Judaism. The only major religion to espouse suicide is Islam, and even then, there's strict rules to follow when "martyring" one's self thru suicide.
The suicide question is why Dr. Kevorkian started "assisted" suicide. He was trying to take the "ownership" of committing the act away from the patient so they could be "right" under God's Law. But, it's STILL suicide. A self made decision to end one's life, and an afront to God's Law.
God did give man agency over himself, PROVIDED that Man's Laws follow the Ten Commandments. Suicide does not follow God's Law, therefore has no place in Man's Society.
I'd like to clarify the commandment as Thou Shall Not Murder, as many people have rightfully killed in God's name and with God's blessing throughout the entirety of human history. Completely agree on the suicide part though.