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re: Opinion on Assisted suicide...its legal in 11 states

Posted on 5/15/24 at 8:07 am to
Posted by RCDfan1950
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Member since Feb 2007
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Posted on 5/15/24 at 8:07 am to
This is an example of why the Founders employed the "separation of Church and State" principle, when they designed a Constitutional Republic based on God-given, inalienable individual Rights. They knew that Freedom comes with the innate assumption that such can only long exist within a cultural paradigm wherein the people are "moral and religious". Irreconcilable philosophical differences/problems arise when the culture changes from Religious-based to Secular. Think abortion as well.

If the State - via the will of the people aka Democracy - chooses to take a side and interfere with the personal Freedom of either Religious or Secular people, then the State will lose cred from the side that is offended. And such will inevitably lead to a war for the formal reins of power. Which is where we are.

IMO, re Assisted Suicide, the State should neither punish nor promote an individual's freedom to end their life. The State should neither condone, offer/subsidize drugs or punish individuals who - via the free market - make acquisition of said life-ending drugs easily available. Fentanyl is very affordable. And unlike abortion, there is no harm done to another individual in the personal suicide process. NWS societal decay.

For Religious people, any spiritual repercussions will be between them and their God at their 'Judgment'...and for Secular people, the consequences will be worldly. For a secular parent who chooses the option of suicide based on a quality-of-life criteria, they might want to consider that their children are watching, and that we older folk know, that mental quality of life scenarios come and go. On top one day and on bottom the next; such is life, and that is what builds character. Albeit children are impulsive and may choose unwisely re irrevocable suicide, if they believe that there is no life after this one. I.e. no hope anyway. No hope = indifference and no motivation to bear the hardships of life. That is curse of Secular (no God) belief.

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