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posted by justAcarpenter on December 5, 2004 at 6:19 PM | link to this | reply

Thanks Word.Smith

for the comment.  "If they never gave it. . ." is a qualifyer to the question--naughty, naughty  Some would then consider that their parents could take their life away, if it suited them.  In some cultures, that was a justifiable moral cause to kill your kin--sons daughters and wives.

Thanks,

FR

posted by freerain on November 27, 2004 at 9:00 PM | link to this | reply

Thanks for the comments

For Pappy, yes, someone else taking your life away from you--killing you, being the ultimate form. 

For AnnandBen, the question of morality of euthanasia will come up later .  This is just the basic question first.

Thanks,

FR

posted by freerain on November 27, 2004 at 8:57 PM | link to this | reply

Not if they never gave it. So I guess that is a no.

posted by word.smith on November 27, 2004 at 8:12 PM | link to this | reply

Does this include euthanasia?

I think the brain dead

maybe helped to go

but then again,

a miracle may happen.

Patients in coma have

 been known to awake after many years.

A very tough decision.

Ben

posted by A-and-B on November 27, 2004 at 11:59 AM | link to this | reply

freerain

Do you mean someone else taking your life, or taking your own life? Is living less that the life you could because of greed or selfishness, or even fear also immoral? I do believe in capital punishment, but I also believe that everybody gets eternal life; whether they know it or not, whether they want it or not. Send them back to god and let him sort it out. Hell would be of your own making if you could only prepare for eternity while alive, but didn't bother because you didn't believe it.

posted by pappy on November 21, 2004 at 5:21 PM | link to this | reply