I thought members of this group devoted to the works of Thomas Szasz would find my posts on Redstate.org of interest. There was a thread condemning the policy...
Cross-posted from Redstate.org http://www.redstate.org/comments/2004/12/4/14927/3224/2#2 Physician Assisted Suicide is a farce part II... By: rmr7 I've been...
Let me be a Devil's Advocate to your message, Rob. No pun intended. I think physician assisted suicide is suicide. The person who chooses to end his life,...
Will you clarify what you mean by the expression "suicide by cop"? ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo!...
... This is when a person intentionally behaves in a way which is likely to provoke a policeman to shoot him, for instance, by threatening the policeman with a...
... I'm going to have to disagree. Confusing the request to be killed with actively taking part in your own death should be in separate categories. Grave...
... Going through the bureaucratic hoops of requesting euthanasia can certainly be considered an action. It just seems to me that no one has the moral right to...
From: Martin Kessler The idea of calling the contracting of a doctor (or anyone else) to do yourself in as opposed to doing it solely (no one else involved at...
From: Martin Kessler The idea of calling the contracting of a doctor (or anyone else) to do yourself in as opposed to doing it solely (no one else involved at...
I left out the word "suicide" in the first statement. The first time I reviewed it I couldn't see anything wrong with the grammar but even though it seemed...
... In Europe (where it's rare) it's a way of accomplishing death by a firearm, as most of us cannot legally access firearms. ... Oh dear. Someone who, say,...
With respect to spectacular exhibitionism, I did not include "threaten" - only in accomplished suicides would someone witness a tragedy. While the harm is...
... This is too simple. No doubt there are despicable family members who use psychiatry to dispose of their "loved ones" or their troublesome behavior....
... As Szasz would say, ideas have consequences. You venture onto a slippery slope when you repeal the prohibition on the termination of innocent life. This...
... I'll stand by my original claim: expressing the desire to do something is different from actually doing it. Asking for death is different from killing...
If drs do not assume the role of assisting suicides, how do yall feel about letting lawyers take on that responsibility. God knows they need the work. When...
... I believe my position is essentially the same the views Szasz expressed in Fatal Freedom. Szasz believes people have a right to be left alone, even if that...
Let me be a Devil's Advocate again. (The real job comes with a good retainer, I hear.) Bob is adamantly opposed to any kind of assisted suicide. However, he...
... Let's clarify: "Physician Assisted Suicide" is merely a euphamism for having an MD write a prescription for a lethal dosage of drugs. It is assistance, in...
Excuse me, Rob, for referring to you as Bob. What's wrong with medical rituals? Medicine is an art, not just a science. I agree that administering drugs to...
... Medicine is an art of healing. It is false to say medical killing is also part of that art. Anyone can kill. It takes training and skill to heal. ...
You say you have seen countless cases of the elderly go through agonizing, drawn out deaths. Presumably some of them may have prayed for an assisted suicide....
... Starving to death is a pretty miserable way to go. It is not uncommoly practiced in Dutch nursing homes to speed death along by allowing the person to...
... I don't see that Rob answered this, so I will. He means that if drugs were available to all on a free market, rather than by doctor's prescription only,...
... Here I'm not sure I agree, Rob. Firstly, presumably, we're not talking about just killing. We're talking about doing it in a way that is minimally...
... If suicide is legal, and people are equal before the law, then it stands to reason that whether or not the person is at the end of his life (which we can...
... This is an imminently reasonable request. So I will provide some specific quotes. All of the following are from: Szasz, Thomas (1999) _Fatal Freedom: The...
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