Topic: Moral suicide (Read 2199 times)

Copernicus · « **Reply #20 on:** October 27, 2005, 06:24:41 PM »

Quote from: geegee

Cop. What is it that you are SPECIFICALLY asking me? I will then do my best to answer the targeted question. I ask this because we may read, understand and interprete certian writings differently. Thanks.

Do you think that the Oregon law is consistent with Christian doctrine as you understand it? Do you think it a moral law? Should terminal patients have the option of terminating their lives in order to stop their suffering?

Zagzagel · « **Reply #21 on:** October 27, 2005, 08:14:04 PM »

Umm...one final question, Cop. Then I will answer your questions. What do you think the Oregon Law is saying concerning your questions to me?

Copernicus · « **Reply #22 on:** October 28, 2005, 10:52:53 AM »

Quote from: geegee

Umm...one final question, Cop. Then I will answer your questions. What do you think the Oregon Law is saying concerning your questions to me?

I've made plain my view that I consider the law moral and that people do have a right to doctor-assisted suicide. Different Christians have different opinions about doctrine, so I think that the answer to that question depends on the individual. I was curious about your views, since you said you wanted to see where Ragnar and I were going with this. I'd like to see where you go with it.

Zagzagel · « **Reply #23 on:** October 29, 2005, 05:46:23 PM »

Okay, Cop. I'm not too sure if I can call my personal view a doctrinal one, though.

Imo, I think, in some cases, it is much better and wiser to allow the right to self-termination. As sad as this situation may be, I do think it is more moral to allow the need to end ones own life based on certian conditions.

The one condition for me is the condition where there is much suffering and where there is no hope of cure. In this situation, I think it helps that the one going through it is aware of that choice.

In other situations, where the person is viewed as a vegetable and with no hope of recovery, I find much harder to judge.

Ragnar · « **Reply #24 on:** October 29, 2005, 06:52:46 PM »

Do you believe that suicidal people should be dissuaded from committing suicide? Physically restrained, in fact? I do.

If I didn't know the person, I would not endanger my own well-being on someone who was determined to die. I would not help them die, but I would not try to prevent them from dying, either.

If it was someone I cared about who contributed to my happiness or whose existence benefitted me in some way, I would try to talk them out of it.

If that sounds selfish, it's because it is

Copernicus · « **Reply #25 on:** October 29, 2005, 09:18:58 PM »

I think that we are all pretty close to agreement on this issue. It is a difficult and depressing subject, but nobody believes that people in pain and with no hope of recovery should be denied the right to terminate the suffering.

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