I don't have time to watch the news. But whenever I log onto the Internet my homepage has local news posted on it right at the top. I cant help but look at it every time I get on. So today I look to see what stories are going on and the one on the top of the list is about the new suicide assistance law.
Voters approved the Initiative 1000 in November. This law allows patients with six months or less left to live get prescription suicide. In order to have a prescription written the patient must ask for it twice, in a 15 day period. They must also have two witnesses present when they sign a statement that says they wish to take their life away. Doctors and druggists are not required to write or fulfill prescriptions for such a lethal medicine if they are opposed to assisted suicide.
After reading this I took some time to reflect on this issue. I can understand why people would want to take their life away if they were told there isn't much time. I get it in some scenarios. My personal opinion if I were in those shoes would be to keep fighting for as long as I can. Maybe not to hope to stay alive longer, but to be able to help science. Let my body be used for chemistry, so someone else maybe can live longer. But at the same time I understand that some people cant afford the bills that come along with six months of being in a hospital, or paying to have someone care for you while you wait. I guess I can respect that, if they didn't want to put a financial burden on the family they were leaving behind. I get that.
But I cant help but wonder what else will come out of this. Will suicide rates incline immensely? How easily obtainable will this drug be? Once it starts getting made it will be easy to get I am guessing, how many people will be find that drug in the wrong hands? I still don't know how I feel about this issue. I guess overall people have the right to make their own decisions. But I think that by saying that then shouldn't I be OK with just regular suicide? If people get the choice to take their life near the end, then shouldn't they have the right to take their life at any point in their life?
Tell me what you think.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Suicide
Posted by free2be at 1:22 PM
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suicide is illegal. we talked about it in english today... its weird... like we were wondering what would happen if the person didnt succeed... if they would go to jail hahaha odd. ALRIGHTY! well im off to have a
nice
hot
steamy
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shower. hahahaha! had to sorry.
-Fa^1
Wow fa^1 thanks for letting me know what your up to. Pretty sure you might go down south and meet the devil one of these days lol. HAHAHA wow I think that will only make sense to me.
Yes suicide is illegal. But what I am talking about is the new law that was voted on and passed. Starting thursday March 5th? Patients will beable to have the choice to commit suicide. If they fit those requirements of course. Recreational suicide (is that what you would call it?) is still illegal, this law does not change that at all. Just for terminally ill people who have less then six months to live...
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