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- From: kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers (was Re: An Abortion Argument that has nothing to do with OT and NT)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.000127.2426@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 00:01:27 GMT
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- In article <C1Bw00.G0L@athena.cs.uga.edu> hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.220623.11480@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >
- >>Perhaps you should go sit with a few dying cancer patients. Try bone
- >>cancer, for starters. Then you can graduate to some of the nastier
- >>varieties.
- >
- >I have. Yet, there is not way I would have killed this person. even if
- ^^^^^^^^
-
- Gee, Paul. And just how old are you?
-
- >someone is dying in pain, there is no right to murder. This particular
- >individual chose not to go to the hospital and take the pain medication
- >or undergo hopeless operations. I can respect that decision. What I could
- >not do is kill someone because they are in pain. People are not animals to
- >be put our of their misery. If I were dying in agony, I would not want to
- >have my family kill me. I would not want that on their consciences for hte
- >rest of their lives. I would not want to die knowing that my family had
- >killed me.
-
- Ok, now how about if _I_ wanted to kill _myself_. No family members involved,
- nobody "pulls the trigger" on me. All the doctor has to do is attach a small
- tube to my IV. If _I_ decide that _my_ life is no longer worth living attached
- to a small army of machines, _I_ can trigger the event that kills _me_.
-
- Would you allow me the dignity of doing that?
-
- >
- >God can and has healed people in the last stages of cancer. Even if I knew
-
- You will be posting your evidence of the proof of God shortly, won't you?
-
- >for sure that God would not heal someone in my family, I could not kill them.
-
- But will you allow them to make their own decisions about their lives?
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