British Expatriate Network

This is an excellent article based on the hysterical debate that's going on surrounding the right-to-die debate.

http//www.harpers.org/LifeEverlasting.html

"The alarms raised in America’s ongoing right-to-die debate have always been characterized by a curious selectivity. You will notice, for example, how the fear of playing God operates exclusively on one side of the medical playground. Thus to help a patient end his or her life “prematurely” is playing God, while extending it in ways and under conditions that no God lacking horns and a cloven hoof could ever have intended is the mandate of “our Judeo-Christian heritage” and the Hippocratic oath."

this right to life debate gets more hipocritical every day . if god decides who lives and dies and when why are humans interfering anyway ??

That's just your opinion right John.... :wink:

and of course you know eveyones entitled to their own opinion....just like you eh john...... :roll:

Of course its my opinion :) as is everybody else,s who post here sometimes posts end with IMO unless the poster is quoting somebody else , please feel free to offer yours :)

8) There was a good debate about this in the UK some 10 yrs back, when the hot topic of the NHS was talked about.

i.e Do you spent $1,000,000.00 on one individual to have a heart transplant and only give them another 6 yrs or do you treat a 1,000 individuals with other cheaper procedures to keep them in good health for another 20 years. The arguement then was how dare the Doc's play god.

You can play this across everything. Do you want a cop on every corner and have no crime. We all want no crime, but we don't want to pay for it, cuz we don't want to pay.


ahh was never going to be easy lol

Its not a yes or no subject in my opinion there is a loy of grey in it and what is right in one instance might not be the answer in another , The money is always part of the answer ,and so is personal wishes . the shame about the shiavo case is not on whos side you lean but the fact the fact that whatever happens this poor women cannot die in dignity already the whole world knows all about her including intimate details like when she has her diapers changed and when she pees .

I blame this on the perants taken this *family matter * to the public no one wins this one ,personal decisions like this are made everyday about a family member suffering from some sort of terminal or uncurable sickness .
How many of you would want one of your loved ones exposed to the public eye like that ??? shame on those who made it OUR bisiness .

I'm with you on this one John! I'm of the opinion that the parents just aren't strong enough to admit she's dead and it's time to say goodbye...