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Reply to "Suicide and The Humanists among us"

Originally Posted by Bestworking:
Originally Posted by lexum:
Originally Posted by Bestworking:

Hey buff, what do you consider "pulling the plug" on a loved one to be?? Is that murder or assisted suicide? 

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neither one

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What is it then? It means the family is causing a death, so what do you call it?

 

Best, I'm going to assume you're too kind to ask this question except in these circumstances when you want to argue with lexum, or whomever he may call himself today. Yes, we have the power to keep alive patients that would have died 100 years ago,,,or even 50 years ago. Is that what you want for yourself, a prolonged life of agony?

 

One story that garnered much news a few years ago was Joe DiMaggio. "He came home from the hosptial." Yes, he did, He couldn't walk. He could barely move. He couldn't eat. He was fed via a gastrostomy. He had round the clock nursing care. In the end, he still died a few months later.

 

Do you want to be kept alive by artificial means? To be fed via a g-tube after you're no longer able to move or swallow? I don't.

 

Pulling he plug is not murder when the patient is brain dead or will be dead within a matter of days. That's simple humanity.


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