tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post111204742593660095..comments2023-10-03T19:47:34.084+11:00Comments on Dialectic: Question - 29th MarchEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986439579966977930noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-1112217714531541152005-03-31T07:21:00.000+10:002005-03-31T07:21:00.000+10:00I, broadly, agree with your position.Why is it tha...I, broadly, agree with your position.<BR/><BR/>Why is it that the discourse that seems to taking place fails to recognise similiar positions generally, and when it does, does so only to dismiss them?<BR/><BR/>And why is the public discourse not allowing a discussion of the ethics of a right to die to take place? Is it because the ethical discourse that consume the public sphere presently are MHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-1112075416039045722005-03-29T15:50:00.000+10:002005-03-29T15:50:00.000+10:00Again, so many people base their opinions on the b...Again, so many people base their opinions on the basis of their own religions. Not anyone in these comments, but all over the media.@MarionTigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01264729791444320763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-1112075087699627962005-03-29T15:44:00.000+10:002005-03-29T15:44:00.000+10:00Why is it, then, that euthanasia is considered to ...Why is it, then, that euthanasia is considered to be morally repugnant, when any rational person would consider a single 'lethal injection' (trying to avoid the awkward connotations of the term) a more humane option? Why must society, given the claims we make regarding our civility, force individuals to undergo considerable suffering because of an insistence upon a right to life?<BR/><BR/>As I MHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-1112074351431384282005-03-29T15:32:00.000+10:002005-03-29T15:32:00.000+10:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.MHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-1112065618521278942005-03-29T13:06:00.000+10:002005-03-29T13:06:00.000+10:00Presume\ambly starvation is considered an option b...Presume\ambly starvation is considered an option because it is passive, 'letting' her die rather than activley killing her (not that there seems much between the two in this case). Also I had been led to belive that she is being hevily sedated as during this time. Not that she can feel any of this, as far as any neurologist, other than the one employed by Jeb Bush)can tell. <BR/>One lesson to Samuel Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12348284792143801649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-1112061749121796512005-03-29T12:02:00.000+10:002005-03-29T12:02:00.000+10:00I support right-to-die, but a drug overdose may ha...I support right-to-die, but a drug overdose may have been more kind than starvation.<BR/><BR/>-MPAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11384742711203790401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-1112047612846361902005-03-29T08:06:00.000+10:002005-03-29T08:06:00.000+10:00If anything, the Schiavo case shows that the idea ...If anything, the Schiavo case shows that the idea of a ‘right to life’ is being taken too far – would it not have been better for all parties involved if the patient had simply been allowed to die years ago?MHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com