12-12-2024, 12:31 PM
I suppose it is wrong of me to consider 'self-directed euthanasia' as a form of suicide.
I understand the impulse for it, and offer no judgment. The grief and pain of illness with no remedy can motivate people towards many terrible options.
I wish no one would suffer so.
But along with the "Bill Burr-esque" attitude about abortion (that it is only the affected person's rightful choice) but it is still, nevertheless, killing a baby;
I find myself considering that this kind of 'end-of-life' "process" as solely the choice of the afflicted... is still suicide.
Calling it "euthanasia" mischaracterizes the nature of the "personal choice."
Insofar as euthanasia, I had great reservations about doctors, courts, even family members exercising that option because it was not a "true choice" of the patient... thus there is a distinct possibility that it is murder... no matter how well-intentioned.
But when the choice is the patient's, it's still remains the intentional surrender of one's life... which sadly qualifies as a manner of suicide.
I kind of resent this propensity of media and activists to visit someone else's tragic fate to "exceptional social characterization and morality-play" for attention.
I understand the impulse for it, and offer no judgment. The grief and pain of illness with no remedy can motivate people towards many terrible options.
I wish no one would suffer so.
But along with the "Bill Burr-esque" attitude about abortion (that it is only the affected person's rightful choice) but it is still, nevertheless, killing a baby;
I find myself considering that this kind of 'end-of-life' "process" as solely the choice of the afflicted... is still suicide.
Calling it "euthanasia" mischaracterizes the nature of the "personal choice."
Insofar as euthanasia, I had great reservations about doctors, courts, even family members exercising that option because it was not a "true choice" of the patient... thus there is a distinct possibility that it is murder... no matter how well-intentioned.
But when the choice is the patient's, it's still remains the intentional surrender of one's life... which sadly qualifies as a manner of suicide.
I kind of resent this propensity of media and activists to visit someone else's tragic fate to "exceptional social characterization and morality-play" for attention.
