01-02-2010, 01:44 PM
Thats a tough one billy. For the most part the only reason it is not allowed is for religious reasons, at least that is the way i see it. Seems the RC faith has said it's ither murder or suicide. Both of which are also illegal but i have never heard of a successfull suicide being brought to trial. If we remove religon from the equasion(and i do not see why not as it has allready been removed from almost everything else) then the answere becomes a little more clear.
Keeping someone alive, hooked up to a machine, in the kind of pain that people can only attempt to relate to but never will unless put into the same circumstance is not by any stretch a humanitarian act. It is an act of extreme torture and needs reservation for the worst of the worst in our society.
The other reason is that people just can not bear the thought of letting a loved one go, the pain(emotionial) is just too much for them to bear.
They however are only thinking of themselves with the most basic humain flaw of selfishness.
If a person is at the end...their life has no meaning but to endure hour upon hour of unendurable pain or the person is in fact brain dead already then it should be either automatic or left to the person in question to decide.
Either way this pirate will not suffer at the end i can promise me that.
Keeping someone alive, hooked up to a machine, in the kind of pain that people can only attempt to relate to but never will unless put into the same circumstance is not by any stretch a humanitarian act. It is an act of extreme torture and needs reservation for the worst of the worst in our society.
The other reason is that people just can not bear the thought of letting a loved one go, the pain(emotionial) is just too much for them to bear.
They however are only thinking of themselves with the most basic humain flaw of selfishness.
If a person is at the end...their life has no meaning but to endure hour upon hour of unendurable pain or the person is in fact brain dead already then it should be either automatic or left to the person in question to decide.
Either way this pirate will not suffer at the end i can promise me that.