Haha, not a problem.
Poll: Terry Pratchet what the...
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Haha, not a problem.
Randomly selected phone calling, is a valid and tested polling method.
The forums are no where near random. 20s dominated male, well educated. Nothing random abut it.
That link contains more than one study and it wasn't just Brighton.
Are you trying to say all the congregation knew about. You completely fail at logic.
It's like saying all parents and PTA are responsible for teachers.
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I'm in favor of assisted death for anyone who chooses it!
Anything else is against my principles, you don't tell people what to do unless it directly affects you or if it's bad for society as a whole. If people want to die then nobody else is in any position to forbid it.
Anything else is against my principles, you don't tell people what to do unless it directly affects you or if it's bad for society as a whole. If people want to die then nobody else is in any position to forbid it.
Nope
That's how it reads, you are blaming congregation which have nothing to do with it.
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He gets my vote. How do we make it happen?
People that disagree with the masses generally should be considered undesirable ... I like it ..
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You don't. You have nothing to do with it. The existing dons and commissarios and all the other people who actually carry some weight on these forums decide.
I've just watched it and was pretty taken aback by it all, I feel rough but I accept people who do suffer from a crippling longterm illness & of sound mind should be able to choose.
What I don't accept is a place like that, we should be able to do it here at home, in our home.
There should be tests to pass similar to what was shown, and a qualified care nurse and/or doctor present not those people.
...still in a kinda shock from seeing that man, it wasn't pleasant to see him ask for water and then make those noises, it should be more instant than that surely.
I need a stiff drink!
What I don't accept is a place like that, we should be able to do it here at home, in our home.
There should be tests to pass similar to what was shown, and a qualified care nurse and/or doctor present not those people.
...still in a kinda shock from seeing that man, it wasn't pleasant to see him ask for water and then make those noises, it should be more instant than that surely.
I need a stiff drink!
Yes, this is the concept of faith, I'm familiar with this.
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Ugh, not this again. A tiny minority of nutjobs abuse religion for their evil ends. The same is true of every ideology.
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Why not any ideology? People believe what they are brought up to believe. This still has nothing to do with logic and critical thinking that I can see.
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And what of the cases where those ethics are strongly aligned with secular ethics, as is frequently the case?
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We're going way off the rails with this thread, let's reign it in a bit.
Are you kidding? 17 pages before we get on to the philosophy of religion? I've got the Guinness Book of World Records on the phone!
As far as I am aware, and what it boils down to, the only reason there is a law against suicide is because of religion, it's against the will of god. Any persons religious beliefs does not matter in this day and age, we are not ruled by the church anymore, and I strongly disagree that anyone, anywhere, has the right to tell me, or anyone for that matter, how they can or cant end their lives.
I do not care one little bit if anyone else is or is not against assisted suicide. It should be an individuals human right, plain and simple, if it is their choice, to end their life in a safe, pain free manner. No one else should be allowed to say if they can or can't do that.
I do not care one little bit if anyone else is or is not against assisted suicide. It should be an individuals human right, plain and simple, if it is their choice, to end their life in a safe, pain free manner. No one else should be allowed to say if they can or can't do that.
It hasn't been illegal to commit (or attempt to commit) suicide in the UK for 50 years. It is however illegal to assist someone to commit suicide.
Presumably because it could become very difficult to distinguish between assisted suicide and murder. How can you know whether a person wanted to die or whether someone just wanted them dead?
In that sense it's comparable to people's claims that they should be allowed to kill anyone trespassing on their property, which could easily result in people inviting their enemies onto their property, killing them and then claiming self defence.
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I think the fears of increased pressure on elderly or poorly relatives if AD is legalised here are unfounded - the sort of people who'd try and encourage Granny to do the 'decent thing' in order to get her out of the way or get their hands on any inheritance faster would probably also not be far above smothering her with a pillow or upping her dosage against her wishes.
Change the is to was, same thing applies. Suicide is frowned upon due to religious beliefs, because someone somewhere wrote in a book 2000 years ago that it is wrong.
In my opinion, that belief is outdated and wrong, and no one, other than the individual themselves, should have the right to choose to die in these circumstances.