How Do I Handle Arguments About Sensitive Topics?

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Regarding euthanasia, in previous centuries they didn’t have pain medication the way we have it now. Think about what our ancestors endured.
 
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0Scarlett_nidiyilii said:
Second hand trauma is very real. Watching somebody else suffer can cause wounds in us, and maybe this is what’s going on.
Of course, there are better mean of pain management than euthanasia, but maybe she’s scared.
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Pain management has also gotten a lot more difficult. Because of the opioid epidemic and pressure from the government, many doctors have been cutting the opioid doses that a lot of their patients have been on for years. This has left many of them in even more excruciating pain. As some scientists have pointed out, long term opioid use actually rewires people’s brains so that then reducing the dose can cause extreme withdrawal symptoms in addition to the original pain the person was suffering. There are a great number of people whose pain cannot really be managed. Their only legal option is to suffer. I can understand why assisted suicide might look attractive to some of these people and they’re probably not going to find the argument that they just have to suffer very persuasive.
 
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The question technique is an excellent tool.

The question of her own fear is also insightful.
 
Ah! She’s testing you, perhaps?
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She is over 70, so probably.
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And at that age, probably pondering her own mortality and fearing the process of death . . .

I’m gradually coming to learn that hot-button topics that trigger us usually link to something more vulnerable within us.
 
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It’s probably best to agree to disagree. Especially if the person you’re arguing with isn’t Catholic. It’s obvious you aren’t going to change her mind, and she’s not going to change yours, so just tell her to respect your opinions and agree to disagree. We are supposed to tell people if we think that they are wrong, but we can’t force someone to believe what we do.
 
She used to be quite Catholic but she has become extremely anti-Catholic. She told me a lot of miserable stories designed to make me change my mind and I am not sure that I want to keep hearing them! I think that you are right and I have told her to agree to disagree. Hopefully, she will give up!
 
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I didn’t know this, Scarlett. Thank you for telling me and for the link.
 
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She knew my views before she brought it up yet again, although she might have thought that I had changed my mind. She is probably feeling her mortality but she was a nurse a long time ago - maybe that is making her fears worse. We live in Queensland, and the Labor government is very likely to introduce laws allowing euthanasia so I am still not really sure why she needs to convince me - her daughters apparently agree with it. They went to Catholic schools.
 
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I have tried to do this twice now without much luck, Lisa. Luckily, I don’t see her very often.

She was going to attempt to get me to sign a petition asking the government to look into legalizing euthanasia. If she tries to get me to do that, I will take your advice.
 
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It is very persuasive, unfortunately. However, I just don’t think that there are enough safeguards and I will make that point yet again, if she raises the subject.
 
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Could she be ill, and this is a way to introduce you to her wishes? (God forbid)
 
No, I thought that too, Agnus-Dei. She said that she is well.
 
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Good to know. That was my first thought due to the persistent nature with the topic.
Dominus vobiscum
 
Thank you, Agnes-Dei. I think that she is fearful because she said that she would like to think that I would see that she has enough treatment for her pain if she is dying (she may have said that she actually wanted to be ‘put out’) and she would do the same for me. I got the impression though that she was referring to euthanasia. My nieces apparently believe in it, even though they went to Catholic schools.
 
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I know what I would do, I would yell until they could see my point , don’t do that.
 
Ha, ha, Adam. I almost did that, I think!
 
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Without St John Paul II’s teachings on Redemptive Suffering, I do not know how I could live with the constant pain in my body.
 
I’d wager that someone close to her is/was suffering greatly. She may know this person took means to end their own life, or wanted do. This is coming from a place of her compassion.
 
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