Clueless Oregon Should Connect the Dots
This is so ironic I would laugh out loud, were it not so tragic. Oregon is upset that it has a high rate of elder suicide. Yet, amid the wringing hands, no one seems to get that the state itself, by legalizing physician-assisted suicide--sends an insidious message that suicide is fine and dandy in some cases. Despairing people, particularly with health issues, get that point and may think, if it's okay for the cancer patient, why not also for me?
The first step in reducing suicide is prevention efforts in all cases. But don't expect Oregon to get that simple point.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 9:36 AM
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2 Comments:
So what's your point, if any?
Gee, how perverse the idea "freedom" has to do with the "freedom" not only to kill oneself but also have doctors do the deed.
Man, don't you even understand medical killing has NOTHING whatever to do with civil liberties to civil rights?
My post should read "or" civil rights.
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