To continue the argument in the Christmas topic
[quote="TheLionPrince"][quote="Woeler"]
Alright, I see. I already hear the atheists and the secularists being blamed by many Americans.
People who do such things are not true atheists or antitheists or humanists or secularists. They're just idiots. On the other side of the extreme scale you have the religious screaming OMG I IZ BEING PERSECUTED RESPECT MY BELIEFS.
I find it ironic that The US has religiously (Yes very religious!) based laws which prevent people from legally ending their lives when they're terminal, and there is no huge discussion, but when a Christmas tree is removed, that's a big deal. Oh boy is that important... Priorities, anyone...?
Deny terminal cancer patients the right to die with some dignity -> should be tolerated
Make healthcare choices for women which are no government business -> should be tolerated
Deny Gay people the right to mary -> should be tolerated
Naming a Christmas tree a holiday tree -> OMFG SATAN
Removing a Christmas tree -> OMFG BLASPHEMY DISRESPECT HOW DARE YOU, HELL IS WAITING.
Spot the irony? I do.[/quote]
Okay, I see the "irony". Well, my problem with euthanasia is that 98% of American medical students swear on some form of the Hippocratic Oath. One of the oaths state it is their moral responsibilty for medical doctors to care "for the good of my patients" and "I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked". Euthanasia contradicts this oath.[/quote]
Do you know how immoral this is? Honestly, letting someone suffer because you do some stupidass oath?
4 years ago there was a girl who lived in a town nearby mine. She had been fighting cancer for 5 years. 5 years of terrible pain, 5 years of being loaded full with poison. The only big decision she needed to make is whether to read a book or not to read one while the transparent sack of poison slowly emptied itself into her system.
18 years old, 5 years of terrible and painful struggle against a disease that can not be overthrown. At the age of 18 the doctors told her that it was too late. Nothing would work and she would die. For I have seen my uncle die because of cancer, it is one of the most painful deaths one could ever imagine.
This girl, she didn't want to die in agonizing pain. She wanted to die with some dignity. She wanted to die as a human. Her parents and the doctor promised her that when the pain became too much, they would end the story.
19 days after the deathsentence by nature she told her parents the following "mom, dad. This is not what you promised." They put her to sleep after a last goodbye and she died among family and friends.
How dare anyone deny a person who is suffering like that a humane death because they swore some stupidass oath.
And by not fulfilling her wish you are not only hurting her. No. Her family has to watch. Her parents have to watch their daughter die slowly and painfully while the pain gets stronger and more intense every single second.
Anyone, anyone who can look me in the face and tell me it is moral to deny people the right to die in a humane way is not human. That is a monster. We don't have such ridiculous oaths here (which are no reason and no argument. It is the law, not the oath). Here we have things called human rights, and a conscience.
Besides, what gives a person the right to tell another person whether he or she can or cannot die? Exactly. Nothing.