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Is assisted sucide a sin?
Pachelbel
Member Posts: 37
"Several years ago I was in a college class where the professor asked everyone who had considered committing suicide to raise their hand. To our surprise, a vast majority of students had considered suicide."
Patrick Danville
Please, if they want to die please grant them their wish. Don't let them suffer any longer. Haven't they suffered enough? Haven't they lived their lives to the fullest or has lived life as long as they can? Sadly to the dismay of their loved ones, when their time has come, the plug must be pulled.
People who are candidates for assisted suicide or wish to commit suicide themselves are sad people they are lost. Their souls are weak and are slowly fading away into nothing. This makes the world sad. It makes the world cry. Let them find and start a new life in the clouds above. Let them find their place in the clearing. Life will move on, they will thank you for your kindness and God will reward you when your time has come.
Haven't you ever wondered what was on the other side of life's golden gate? Haven't you ever wondered what secrets this magical place holds? You should be happy your loved one is dying. He or she will see things you have never seen before. No more will your loved one have to endure the ups and downs of life, no more will he or she have to see pain and tragedy. What a delightful treat. What a lucky fate.
You will understand, you will see things much clearer when it is your time to pass on. Many people die everyday. It is not an uncommon thing. Why do most of us live life for anyway? We are always searching for that next big thing that will give us instant happiness and escape from the pressures of life. But of course, over time, that will eventually fade away.
We spend so much of our precious energy looking for that quick fix that will get us through the day that it drives us to emptiness. When that quick fix is gone where does that leave us? It leaves us feeling shallow, it leaves us feeling lifeless it leaves us feeling MAD!!!.
You know if you think about it, death could be a blessing. So many people die in our world before their time without reaching their full potential; never knowing what good they could have done in the world. Yet they perish into the darkness as quiet as a mouse. They die feeling worthless and poor, how sad, what a dreadful shame.
The millions of suffering people with a shimmer of a chance to do well in life even if they try their very hardest and give their best effort, but still fall short of their goals may be better off in a "better place."
Why suffer like the poor coma ridden patient lying in a hospital bed with no chance of living a meaningful and productive life? We can't save everybody in the world. It is just to big and too overwhelming a job to accomplish. Of course we could try and many people do try every day, yet people still suffer, they still cry out in pain hoping for and pleading for a better life. They tell themselves over and over again that anything must be better than this, anything must be better than this nightmarish purgatory.
To those poor suffering souls I say I hope you find a way out. I will pray for you and if you or the precious family members of a dying patient decide to "pull the plug." I will cry your pardon and wish you the best in the clearing.
Love,
Ichben Einberliner
Comments
What is bad is usually sin (in most religions). Let me answer your question like this Pach, and don't take it hard (just a simulation):
If I assisted your mom in sucide, would you press charges on me or let it slide? Do you think it's bad that I did this to your mother? Do you think that it's a sin?
EDIT (called out the wrong person)
-In memory of Laura "Taera" Genender. Passed away on Aug/13/08-
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Dr Jack Kevorkian assisted in the suicides of numerous people that were terminally ill. Consider if a loved one was terminally ill, and was going to suffer thru that illness. Would it be a sin for that person to ask Kevorkian to end their life? Would it be a sin for Kevorkian to actually do so? The State of Michigan had difficulty with that question because a substantial portion of the jury pool would have had difficulty convicting Kevorkian. I don't recall what the actual charges were that he was convicted on, but I personally feel that deciding to end it with dignity in a terminal situation should be an option. Not the first option, of course, but after medical opinion concurrance and counselling to insure that the decision is being made freely.
In regard to being a sin, consider that in the Middle Ages soldiers that were wounded in the abdomen were mercy killed to prevent them from suffering thru the infection. Offhand I am unable to think of any opposition to this forcefully expressed by the Catholic Church, the major source of interpretation at that time.
I have to say that was moving, i guess if the person really wanted to die then in a way it could be ok but its still not right. You may be helping them end suffering but what if you are also ending joy and happiness becouse there is no other magical happy place?
Its only a sin if you believe in the religion that declares it to be so...
More importantly you should be asking if it is ethical, or depending on the country you live in, legal. Assisted suicides are allowed in some countries. Indeed many people travel with loved ones for that very reason.
To the OP, i noticed on this particular thread you have left out your MySpace link, i hope you have stopped using the picture of the downs syndrome sufferer as your pic. Not funny, not clever, not by the farthest stretch of imagination.
Pachebel, every post you have is ridden with propaganda laced with delicious adjectival fluff. To live or not to live, and you say to choose death? Life isn't perfect, it never will be. You give ideas of happiness and fufilment on the other side of that razor that slices down your arm. Life is hard, and only the tough and the lucky live very long, but I would much rather be unlucky than be weak. You question how sinful it is to assist in someones suicide. Sin is nothing to me, yet I am weighted down with morals. It is unmoral to me to assist in someones suicide. To tell someone else to give up. Ask yourself would you rather be able to feel that pain than not to feel anything at all. Again ask yourself is it better to feel the pleasure than to die. Life is about balance, there are good days and there are bad. For every rainy day there will be sun. Do not only count raindrops, look at ever side of life. Remember as bad as you have it, someone else has it worse, and they are stronger, they will not give in or give up.
Pachebel, you may have a way with words that moves people, but so did Hitler.
I hope some day we can all put aside our racisms and prejudices and just laugh at people