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Old 19.06.2012, 14:37
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Re: Swiss canton passes first law on assisted suicide

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Imho, the abandonment saddens God and the suicide is an abandonment, isn't?
Exactly! In your opinion. I understand your opinion, and can respect if you didn't want to have assisted suicide should you find yourself in unbearable, terminal pain.

However, I fail to see how your opinion (and that of those who share it) should matter one jot on anyone else's choices. If you and yours can prevent the change of law by democratic means, so be it - but the argument of 'it makes God sad' isn't exactly reasonable when trying to legislate an individual's freedom to do as they see fit with their own body, and choose to die with dignity.

Shouldn't each person be free to make God happy or sad as they see fit? Isn't that the foundation of this whole pesky free will thing, and with it the theological origin of sin?
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