No, what I mean is what some people have been advocating--giving a lethal dose of morphine or some other drug to "ease the patient out of life." Yes, in the beginning it would only be in case of PVS, or brain death, or total paralysis, or irrecoverable loss of quality of life, but once you can do that kind of thing the conditions under which you can do it can be bent and stretched out of all proportion, and I don't want that to be happening on my planet. Yes, some people are suffering. People do suffer. Sometimes that can't be helped. But once there's a form someone can sign which authorises someone else to take a life that isn't ending on its own, we're in a bad place.
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Date: 2005-03-21 05:27 pm (UTC)