Comments on: Making life the first choice http://www.prowomanprolife.org/2009/11/02/making-life-the-first-choice/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Squander Two http://www.prowomanprolife.org/2009/11/02/making-life-the-first-choice/comment-page-1/#comment-4559 Squander Two Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:40:19 +0000 http://www.prowomanprolife.org/?p=7371#comment-4559 What annoys me is the insistence that it should be doctors who perform euthenasia. Doctors themselves seem to be pretty keen on it, too. Why does no-one see the conflict of interest? If we must have euthenasia, it should be administered by... well, by executioners, though no doubt with a friendlier job title. Make it the doctors' job to fight for their patients' lives no matter what. If someone does have euthenasia, it should be after they succeed in dissuading their doctors, not because their doctors succeed in persuading them. What annoys me is the insistence that it should be doctors who perform euthenasia. Doctors themselves seem to be pretty keen on it, too. Why does no-one see the conflict of interest? If we must have euthenasia, it should be administered by… well, by executioners, though no doubt with a friendlier job title. Make it the doctors’ job to fight for their patients’ lives no matter what. If someone does have euthenasia, it should be after they succeed in dissuading their doctors, not because their doctors succeed in persuading them.

]]> By: Lauri Friesen http://www.prowomanprolife.org/2009/11/02/making-life-the-first-choice/comment-page-1/#comment-4552 Lauri Friesen Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:55:21 +0000 http://www.prowomanprolife.org/?p=7371#comment-4552 The contemporary confusion about the meaning of human dignity is most apparent in the argument about "death with dignity". To religious pro-lifers, human dignity has its origins in our being created in the image of God. To the secular, it seems to have been reduced to being able to wipe our own bottoms. In Bill C-484, the people who bring about this dignified death will also decide wherein the indiginities lie. It will soon no longer be about cleaing up behind yourself, but whether some able-bodied person thinks you would prefer to be dead. There is also the apparent lack of concern for the people who will be required to make these decisions about and for others. Do you really think that, for example, killing your mother will have no far-reaching and destructive consequences for you and forsociety in general? The contemporary confusion about the meaning of human dignity is most apparent in the argument about “death with dignity”. To religious pro-lifers, human dignity has its origins in our being created in the image of God. To the secular, it seems to have been reduced to being able to wipe our own bottoms. In Bill C-484, the people who bring about this dignified death will also decide wherein the indiginities lie. It will soon no longer be about cleaing up behind yourself, but whether some able-bodied person thinks you would prefer to be dead.

There is also the apparent lack of concern for the people who will be required to make these decisions about and for others. Do you really think that, for example, killing your mother will have no far-reaching and destructive consequences for you and forsociety in general?

]]>