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Old 10-10-2020, 11:47 AM  
Bama
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I am all in favor of physician assisted suicide but I understand and respect those who's beliefs prevent them for being in favor of it. Without setting aside your beliefs, I think you should vote in favor of it anyway.

Very few, if any, decisions are more personal than a person's belief in a God..... whatever/whomever that person may be for you or the teachings of that God.

If I had to liken myself to a religion, I'd have to lean toward Christianity but respect that those who are Muslim, Buddhist or Hindu have every right to their beliefs. Now, ask yourself, do you respect the rights of people who have chosen a different religion to follow? If so, here is my logic to explain why you too should vote in favor of something that you personally don't agree with.

As a Christian, and in following the teachings of the bible, I must believe that all Hindu, Muslims and Buddhist are going to hell as Christ is the only pathway to Heaven which contradicts my previous statement in respecting that a person has a right to a different religion/God. So I have made a personal choice to allow something that goes against my beliefs to exist.

And from a legal standpoint I offer this:

We make laws for the betterment of society & to protect those incapable of protecting themselves. You can drink yourself under the table and that's perfectly legal and not infringe against your personal choice to do so. Only when you come out into society and are intoxicated in public or decide to get behind the wheel of a car and drive does your personal choice become a societal one where we need to invoke laws preventing it.

So if anyone would, please explain to me how deciding to end my own life effect society? I'm not harming anyone else nor am I endangering humanity as a whole.

If I am eat up with terminal cancer and the pain is excruciating. I have no quality of life, bedridden, on pain meds that do little to ease the suffering and you, sitting in your lazy-boy recliner eating hamburgers and watching Real Housewife's of whatever get decide for me that I can't end my life?

That's just not right... and what that should say is, That's just not right FOR YOU if it were you in that bed.
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