Assisted Suicide, Widows & Orphans

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Ian & Pam Dorion wrote:


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> IAN

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> Unfortunately, not everyone agrees with you. I for one feel that ANYONE

> who wishes to die should be allowed to for whatever reason. Why should

> anyone be forced to suffer through a painful death when a physician can

> help them end it peacefully? Christians have more empathy for a dying

> dog than they have for one of their own kind.


    So far as the Christian is concerned, life is but a very brief (infinitesimally tiny in respect to
eternity) sojourn before going to a much better place for eternity.

    Isn't it odd that the atheist, who expects simply to cease, (and hence should most want to fight the
"dying of the light") has more sympathy for those who suffer and wish to end their finite lives early than
the Christian who expects eternity in heaven?


--
       Michael Fisher, ET1/SS USN ret., law student

       http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html

       http://home.aol.com/Mfish6994

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      He that would make his own liberty secure,
      must guard even his enemy from oppression;
      for if he violates this duty,
      he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

                                              Thomas Paine

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