Why do we live in a society where we can't choose to end our own lives but we can choose to prohibt the life of another from existing?\n\nDon't get me wrong, I'm not trying to start the whole pro-life or pro-chooice debate, I just want to know why we can't kill ourselves legally....
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Very good question!!!!\nMy nephew was 28 wks at birth and he died, he was a whole little man. All his fingers and toes, etc. and it is legal to abort at this stage in LIFE.\nAnd if my pet is suffering I can have them put to sleep.\nBut I am forced to watch a loved one die because we can't even do for them as we would a pet!!!!!! Hmmmmmm\nOUR GOVERNMENT?????????
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This life's struggles seem  to be "not worth it".\n\nA struggle within to reconcile the goodness of God with the visceral images of death and hate and disease all around us.\n\nThe wish to be able to live as a child all you life and escape the madness of people and their agendas.\n\nLacking that, let's just die.
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I apologize now cause this is gonna be long and more than likely will be added to.\n\nI'm always wondered about this.  I know it's one of those spin things but it's hard to pin this one down.  To use myself as an example, I am Pro-Choice.  I also consider myself Pro-life because I would never ask a woman I got pregnant to have an abortion.  First off, I think I should take the responsibilty for it and carry it through to term even if we don't want it.  (This brings up the debate of it's not my body so I can't choose and I agree, I can't.  But I would hope that a woman I slept with would be willingly to listen to what I have to say about the baby inside her that I helped create. Once Again I hope she would, but it's not my body and thus I cannot choose for her.)\n\nThe reason why I would never want an abortion are two-fold, I'd want to step up to the plate and father that kid.  If we decided not to keep it, then I'd want to give it up for adoption so someone else who can't have a baby for some reason or another can finally have one (I have a friend who cannot get pregnant through normal methods and she wants mroe than anything to be a mother.  Did you know invitro-fertilization is like $4000 a shot?  That doesn't even mean you will get pregnant, it means you have a chance to!)  I think that clarifies my Pro-choice/Pro-life stance.  I also don't believe that I have the right as an EQUAL member of human society, to force my values on others.  I don't consider myself to be any more special than anyone else on the streets.\n\nPeople refer to it as "Pro-Death" because they feel like it needs to be an opposite of the "Pro-life" platform.  It has to be called an opposite to be given a choice is rational while outlawing CHOICE, and thue FREEDOM is not.  I bet the tunes would change if "pro-Life" was refered to instead of "Removal of a right", which is what it really is.  Secondly, has anyone ever been to a pro-death rally?  Of course not, That would be considered Genocide (stopping all births would be an effective method of stopping humanity and thus genocide).  \n\nHere's the funny thing, people who are "Pro-life" also tend to be for the Death Penalty.  How is that Pro-Life?  There IS debate on whether a baby is a human or not and thus a murder, there IS NO debate on whether a prisoner is a human.  Perhaps a foul murdering human, but nonetheless human.  Is that not a murder?\n\nOh one more thing.  I am 100% against partial birth abortions.  That practice disgusts me.  I think it disgusts just about everyone who knows teh method of it.  Regardless, I would not want a law that states you cannot do it.  But here's what i think, you carried it that long, just deliver the baby and give it to someone that wants it.
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The only thing wrong about unnatural death is when it is premeditated murder/suicide... I believe that abortion (unless it is for the mother's life) is murder.  Capital punishment is one thing I haven't gotten my head around yet.  I can't decide.  I lean toward the fact that only God can judge, but I also understand the plea of the victims.
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i wish it were legal. If a person wants to die, then why not? dont tell me " life is beautiful, it has its ups and downs, keep ur chin up" or anything like that, i say if ur uhmmm maybe 23 and over then u can decide for yourself. and at least this way u r not getting anyone else involved where they may be harmed like throwing urself into traffic, setting a fire, jumping off a building. we have a surplus population anyway. it should be a persons choice. im not suicidal by the way lol..and dont mean only when they have some illness, if someone wants to die, let them. and dont tell me its agianst religion, the person who wants to die doesnt care obviously, its not there religion or they have given up on it. and dont say that u hurt the ppl u leave behind, the person that wants to die is hurting obviously so he needs to think about himself first. he has kids? well hes not gonna be a good father anyway if he wants to be dead, kids wil be better off....wow hey where is this debate, i want to check it out lol. good luck
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Abso-posi-lu-tively life into years!\nIf I could have left this world 8 years ago, I would have been satisfied at the time of my death.\nNow I am getting older and I have not been able to experience the "live and let live happily" side due to legal vs. moral argument.\nI am under authorative thumb now from standing for my beliefs and not allowed to live freely. It has added years to my life, but would gladly trade the years for life.\n\nHopefully, the Lord has a plan in my coming years to bring back the life. Atleast I will have eternal life and that, my friend, makes it worth living.
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Our society has put a high price on the life of the individual.  We have debated the death penalty with this question at the fore.  If someone takes a life, should they forfeit theirs?  We value life so highly that even in this case we don't take a life.
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You ask: <So is the sanctity of life just a human invention based on self interest to protect itself?>\n\nYes. Probably. It's odd, isn't it that life is sacred for the unborn, but once you're born, you're fit to kill, particularly if you're not American. So, the idea is not a human invention, but probably an American invention (of a particular political group) to advance it's own interests. Like all political principles, this principle is filled with contradictions. Instead of principle, I should have said "slogan".
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No. It is actually very selfish. I've been there. When you truly think about it, it would hurt so many people whether you think so or not. People can set up a "do not resuscitate" order so if anything should happen, doctors can not keep them alive, however, euthanasia is out of the question. There would be too many unhappy people euthanizing themselves just because. Life takes some work, but it will be worth it in the end.
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One of the worlds' great mysteries.\n\nAs one of the people above me said....They support someones right...even if it's a mistake.   Well if it's a mistake...Why the hell do you support it?!  But yet, smoking is a mistake, and you do everything in your power to stop smokers.  Damned Hypocrites!\n\nHere's a question...if an unborn baby is a female... aren't you taking away her right to choose?\n\nHey, death penalty opponents...think of the death penalty as a 'late term abortion' ....\n\nI don't get it...kill the ones who have not sinned, and save all the sinners.  Nice.....
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There's pro-life and then there's anti-choice.\n\nThe issue isn't whether people should have abortions or not. The issue is whether the government (the majority) is allowed to make those decisions for everyone, ignoring free will or consent.  Somebody is going to make a choice. It's either the individual or the government. \n\nMore details linked below on these arguments. As to what you can say to him in rebuttal...\n\nI've never met a single person that is pro-abortion. I've never met one that advocates people should have them. Nobody goes around trying to convince every pregnant woman to have an abortion. You don't see people lining up outside hospitals and churches waving signs that say you must abort.\n\nThere's no such thing as the pro-abortion movement. In fact, every pro-choice advocate I know personally disapproves. They are personally pro-life. But more than anything else, they feel the decision should be up to the individual, not forced on them by the government majority rule.\n\nThe concept of reproductive freedoms is not whether you agree with the individual choices being made. It's whether you think the government should have the right to take away and mandate those choices.\n\nWhy can't people understand that freedom of choice is not a minority value, even if the majority happens to disagree with the minority's choice?
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I think its wrong to kill your self, just because it makes you seem weak. When the only thing wrong with you is depression and you attempt to commit sucide you give up trying, but you never really tried. now for sickness: When your going to die anyway why should you deal with the pain and die slowly?
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It does seem like sterilizing a needle for a person that is being killed by the government don't it. I think a person ought to be able to choose their own path to hell. So why are their such laws.
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Dont kill yourself you are here for a reason.  Killing yourself is probably THE most selfish thing you can do.  You friends and family love you no matter what you may think.  And if for some strange reason they really dont, God loves you and has a plan & purpose for your life.
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Not at all.  If someone wants to end their life, it should be THEIR decision.  Who is ANYone to tell me what to do with my body?  \n\nSo far, the government says I can't end my own life, and can't ingest drugs of my choice...both of which can be done without providing an ounce of revenue to a corporation or government btw.  So, why doesn't the govenment stop people from eating themselves to death?  I can sit at McDonalds and down big mac after big mac until I run out of dough, day in and day out, and become the fattest most digusting unhealthy blob of an individual, but as soon as I ingest a "controlled substance", or put a gun to my head, I'm in violation of the law.  How does that make sense?\n\nBTW, you can't compare this to abortion.  Aborted fetuses have no choice, but people stricken with terminal disease should be able to choose their own destiny.
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I don't know if it is solely my Christianity that has my husband and I oppose capital punishment, but we both do. \nWhen do two wrongs make a right? Why does one person have the right to end another life?\n\nmy husband lost his wife and 8 year old son to  a drunk driver, and his mother was murdered 6 months later by her second husband. Neither man did one day in jail. Was that right? No. \n\nDo we have the rights to say they should have been executed? No. punished? Yes. \n\nForgiveness is a mighty hard thing sometimes. Only by the grace of God can we forgive in such cases. That is where we are, thanks for the opportunity to share...
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in a way it is very ironic but I think that many people feel the same way. I know that I myself believe in the death penalty for extreme crimes but otherwise not at all. See the problem that I see with encouraging to kill themselves is that often times the people guilty of such crimes don't feel guilt for their crimes, so why would they kill themselves. I don't know guess i am rambling. Good Luck in deciding