Euthanasia/ assisted Suicide

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So I live in New Zealand and currently our government is calling on submissions for the new Euthanasia/ assisted Suicide bill for terminal people who have 6 months left to live, with an age limit of 18, (although like many countries we know age and the restrictions on who qualifies will become more broad as time goes on)
Our submissions count in New Zealand and they are read and considered and have stoped laws being passed. Does anyone have any powerful counter arguments/ points about Euthanasia/ assisted Suicide they would like to share with me, as I am currently writing my submission thanks
 
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theresagirl1996fagfd said:
Does anyone have any powerful counter arguments/ points about Euthanasia/ assisted Suicide they would like to share with me, as I am currently writing my submission thanks
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Our priest’s doctors gave him six months to live with a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.

That was 7 years ago. He is in complete remission and perfectly fine.
 
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For all intents and purposes it is suicide. With suicide you make a conscious decision to kill yourself. The difference with euthanasia is that a doctor helps you decide and you feel bad. But you could also feel bad with suicide as well. So what is the line here?
 
Deliberately choosing to kill oneself or someone else is gravely wrong. It is deliberate homicide.

No one is requred to use extraordinary measures to save life. Hospice care is acceptable. It is acceptable to decline useless treatment.

On the other hand, I know of an elderly lady who was placed in hospice care, got better and fired the hospice. Now she is living at home and getting along okay. Medical personnel cannot predict tne future.

The trouble with the ‘right to die’ is that it often becomes the ‘duty to die.’
 
As I’ve posted before, another secular argument is the possibility of abuse; that it might not really be the person’s own decision.

If Uncle Joe has a stroke, maybe Aunt Aggie who’s just sick of taking care of him, or the nephew hoping to inherit his money, might try to convince him that he’d be better off with assisted suicide.
 
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Our submissions count in New Zealand and they are read and considered and have stoped laws being passed.
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How does that work? Is it just the popular opinion of your countrymen that is considered, or does there need to be some sort of backing up of one’s opinion by New Zealand’s national laws?

I think it’s more important to target your submission to the folks who will be deciding on whether or not the submission will have any influence with them. For example, if religious appeals will fall on deaf ears then stick to secular arguments. If the authorities hold an individual’s autonomy in high esteem, then craft your submission to focus on why euthanasia is bad for an individual’s autonomy. Etc…etc…
 
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Thanks and yes only recently become Catholic but I am completely against euthanasia (and obviously the Catholic church is to)
 
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Parliament makes the decision but of course the public opinion is factored in so if it was a pretty close divide in submission then I think they would decide to legalise assisted suicide but if a clear majority said no we don’t want it, it would most likely not go through 🙂
 
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