Are we celebrating suicide? http://deeperwaters.wordpress.com/20...dy-of-suicide/
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A very good article Nick.
As many of you know about 2 months back we had my mother-in-law attempt suicide (was more of a attention/help me type) and we had my eldest brother's wife of 3 months actually commit suicide (it was the other type of attempt....she took so many pills that even if an ambulance had been on scene as she took them they would not have got her to the hospital in time), so this subject is pretty raw for me.
But I saw a recent post (I van't remember the source) talking about the fact that people used to stand bravely in the face of a terminal disease and say "you aren't getting me without a fight" (my eldest brother's first wife did that with cancer, she fought the bastard for 4 long years). Now we have this fatalism of "well if I'm gonna die it will be on my terms" (Maynard, Terry Pratchett has expressed the same and I read an article on Stuff.co.nz today about someone else declaring the same)
We seem to have lost this ideal that life is precious, and that it is worth fighting for even if it may be a loosing battle.
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:13
"...he [Doherty] is no historian and he is not even conversant with the historical discussions of the very matters he wants to pontificate on."
-Ben Witherington III
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I did feel for Brittany Maynard and I know it's easy for me here in my position to tell her don't do it. At the same time, God's rules are God's rules, and my understanding is there are sufficient painkillers available to prevent the stereotypical horrifically painful death."I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill
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Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post...there are sufficient painkillers available to prevent the stereotypical horrifically painful death.
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Originally posted by CMD View PostThis is incorrect, unfortunately. I won't go into much detail, but I helped take care of my uncle when he had cancer, and despite all the pain meds, muscle relaxers, etc., his death involved horrific amounts of pain; especially the last couple of weeks of his life.A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
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Originally posted by Catholicity View PostI'm going to add, neuroglioblastomas are rare and AWFUL! I've known two people to die of them. but neither passed in pain.
My mother put up a good fight until the end. That's why I have a hard time thinking well of someone who just kills themselves.
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