not your business
I believe in relieving pain and suffering but I will not help someone kill themselves. That burden they will have to bear themselves. I find these people in some ways selfish. They want to involve someone else in their suicide I think in order to help them rationalize the acceptance of their actions. Carbon monoxide posioning is painless also. But they say it is not dignified. How dignified is it to involve someone else in your suicide?
That depends.
If i invite you to come only for the purpose of having you watch me scatter my own neurons & blood on the wall with my {
9 mm,
.357,
12 ga] [this is a gun forum, after all. just doing my share to prevent this thread from being locked], then it's got no dignity.
On the other hand, if I choose to invite a few close friends or family members to my suicide {should i decide to do that, which at this point i have
NO intention of doing}, and we play Mozart, drink wine, eat fine bread & cheese before I {pull the trigger, eat the pills, jump from the 5th floor, etc}, then it could be arguably 'dignified'.
IMO, when it comes to whether and how long I live MY life, it's not about federal rights, states right or corporate rights.
It's about individual rights.
Whether I have the flu or not, a broken arm or not, cancer or not, live or not ain't none of your **c***g business, as long as i don't harm you in the process of deciding.
Likewise for my physician, with whom I have a personal & professional relationship.
Hear this well: what you say about supreme court justices, attourney generals, presidents, governors, tax agencies, police & fire departments, fish & game departments .... all that is fair game.
But as long as I'm not affecting your life or health, then stay out of my life, and stay out of my death.
If it comes down to it, if I'm in severe pain, with no choice of a comfortable sleep, or dancing, or shooting the 9 at the range with pleasure, & I want to stick said 9 into my mouth pointed at my brainstem & pull that 8 lb trigger, then after i do so, since i killed someone (me), you should send out the
sherriff and have me arrested, tried & convicted.
But if you have an ounce of dignity, a gram of compassion for those who suffer needless chronic pain leading to terrible death - like my father, who spent the last two months of his life in CCU hooked up to innumerable beeping machines - who say to themselves, "it's been great, but i'd like to check out now", well then i say to you, let them die with dignity when they choose.
Just an opinion. No Truth implied.