Pope Francis to Belgian Catholics: Stop Offering Euthanasia

Pope Francis to Belgian Catholics: Stop Offering Euthanasia Sept 17, 2017 23:48:14 GMT

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Post by cupcakes on Sept 17, 2017 23:48:14 GMT

Sept 17, 2017 23:17:39 GMT @miccee said:

Sept 17, 2017 20:31:59 GMT cupcakes said:

^tpfkar

The number of "wrongful death" lawsuits would rise astronomically.

Morally I would be fine with post-birth abortions, but I realise that this would probably be too radical to ever be implemented.

If the right to die were enshrined into law (i.e. the fact that people can commit suicide does not make it a legally guaranteed right), and every case of assisted dying was properly documented, then those wrongful death lawsuits could go nowhere.

Right, and doctors aren't arrested every day, and documenting negligent, fraudulent or criminal reasons would stop all recourse cold.

That highlights conspicuously how few are actually both serious and deliberative.

I grant that some 'suicide attempts' are neither serious nor deliberative (a teenage girl taking a handful of aspirin from the bathroom cupboard is the archetypical example of this), but many attempts which are both very serious and very delberative can go wrong. Even stepping in front of a train moving at 80mph has been known to fail to kill a person.

The fact that you think stepping in front of a train is a deliberative way for anything but maliciously making a grisly scene on the way out tells quite a bit.

Help to make their lives as enjoyable as possible. If they refuse nutrition or any other treatment then help to make them as comfortable as possible.

That is a vile and cruel insult to someone who cannot do anything at all for themselves. And refusal of nutrition is a legal grey area.

That is just a la-la response. And mentally competent people can refuse both nutrition and treatment, not really grey at all.

Even stepping in front of a train moving at 80mph has been known to fail to kill a person