12 April 2007

Physician assisted suicide in CA

Looks like Californians are getting closer to being the second state to recognize physician-assisted suicide.
I understand that conservatives squirm at the idea of a law allowing something they find morally heinous.

But hey, why can't we all just hug each other and say "passing judgment on our fellow neighbors is God's domain, and God's domain only." If God doesn't like a terminally ill person choosing to end his life because of some dysfunctional biology that God gave him, then so be it. But who are any of us - Christians or self-pronounced Bible experts - to say we know better than that man suffering and entitle ourselves to act on behalf of God?

There's also the California Medical Association's opposition to the proposal as well. Providing a mentally competent, terminally ill patient with the means to kill himself apparently goes against the Hippocratic oath of "do no harm." Unfortunately, the Hippocratic oath has been used too often in the past as a way to circumvent patient wishes when those wishes contradicted established medical practice on moral grounds.

Debate rages in Calif. over physician-assisted suicide - USATODAY.com

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