Assisted suicide should not be a crime.

Do not worry about your spelling mistakes as its a safe bet that I will make more even on the best computer ;) "Some people who are physically or mentally ill are usually incapable. .. ." Thank God. I am a trained EMT, and I can tell you that people who are deemed mentally ill have no right to choice in rejection of treatment for regular injury's that are not related to a suicide attempt. or even the choice to not go to the hospital. Why? because there mind is not in its best shape, and it is considered negligent to leave them uncared for and we know someone called us to the scene even if it wasn't the injured person. What are some good indicators of mental illness? well desire for suicide is one, so we have a self sustaining circle that keeps adheeding to there choice of death an option for us. The only way to be out of the circle with that choice is if you made it ahead of time with a DNR order and we find the DNR tag on your neck. such decisions are considered in your good mental state and they are not request for suicide, just a peaceful death when the time naturally comes. ". .. . or frightened of killing them self, therefore want someone to do it for them. " There is a good reason they are frightened of it. Fear is our body warning us of something quite often, the fact that so many have this fear in common show it is not irrational fear caused by mental illness. "As a liberal society we should look at this from the victims perspective and how damaged they must feel not knowing how long they are going to live? When the pains going to stop? , So why is it taken in such a crude way? ." They have asked for something crazy. with the logic that they desire no more pain, and equated that with death. but death is so much more than lack of pain. and pain sometimes ends in this life without the aid of death. This testimony comes from other EMS members I know who have been it way longer than I have. You remember the DNR order I mentioned? well even in those cases were it seems its time to die and the person has a DNR there have been cases that the individual with the DNR have used what breath and strength they had to grab the EMT and get out the words 'I want to live'. one individual had the DNR logo tattooed to his chest . http://justinsomnia.org... just so the EMT's wouldn't miss when they came but changes there mind when the moment of truth comes. This shows us that a decision for death perspectively has a tendency to change right before its about to happen. what if someone asked for you to invoke there suicide and after its about to happen they have lost any ability to let you know they are changing there mind. If we are to accept ones right to choose death in any situation it can only be done by the individual themselves, for they have to keep there commitment all the way to the moment the deed is done. the know there thoughts. there can be no failure to communicate a change of mind. "The weight of life varies f rom one person to another. In other words, life is just a relative value. .. .. " Uh, No. Just because I end up with more responsibilities on my back than you do does not make it less valuable, or more valuable. Just because you might have a deeper hole you have to dig yourself out of in life does not make yours more or less valuable than mine. You are worth something simply because 'you are. ' The reason life is treated as inherently valuable is because it is. it is from this foundation that we learn that things like slavery or any form of social inequality are wrong, the situation of another does not make them less than us in respect to life so we should be humane in our treatment of others. Breaking this foundational holding by justifying suicide of course will not lead back to these evils immediately but every great evil starts with a more unnoticeable evil. the road to hell is paved with good intentions. "Im not saying euthanasia/assisted suicide should be use in all cases of illness, but i do believe it should be a choice for people who are desperately ill so they are reassured" reassured of what? that things will be good for them after there suicide? "Death is an option that people should have because death is similar to the options we already have. We are allowed to take risky choices for our own benefit, such as tobacco, or alcohol, as long as we know the consequences of the act. " We know absolutely nothing about the consequences of death. have you died before? was it for 3 days? a week? tell me what it is like. tell me of someone who knows for sure deaths mysteries. what happens after Death is as unknown as it gets for the world. . http://familydoctor.org...