The Culture Of Death Continues To March

[HisChildForever]

[quote name='King's Rook's Pawn' date='02 January 2010 - 01:33 PM' timestamp='1262457192' post='2028640']
What if the person who attempts suicide violently resists being taken to the hospital? Do we shoot him? There's an ironic way to deal with suicide. Obviously, we should encourage such people to get help. I just reject the use of coercive force to do it.
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When a person attempts suicide and is found in time, he or she is not strong enough to fight.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='King's Rook's Pawn' date='02 January 2010 - 01:34 PM' timestamp='1262457269' post='2028642']
Who has the right to use force to stop him?
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I'm not an anarchist, so I think that civil authorities have the right to stop him.

[King's Rook's Pawn]

We should preach Truth to encourage people seeking assisted suicide to value their lives. If we lived in a society that valued life people would freely choose to embrace it. "Mercy-killing" would be seen as unthinkable, as it should be.

[King's Rook's Pawn]

[quote name='HisChildForever' date='02 January 2010 - 02:36 PM' timestamp='1262457404' post='2028643']
When a person attempts suicide and is found in time, he or she is not strong enough to fight. [/quote]

Well, I guess you're talking about people who are found on the bathroom floor next to a bloody razor blade or an empty bottle of pills. I can hardly blame family members who rush such a person to the hospital. I was more thinking along the lines of assisted suicides of cancer patients, etc.