
03-13-2008, 04:18 PM
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Hippodrome Bluebonnets
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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Originally Posted by brianwspencer
The only government that allows this (Oregon's) feels exactly the way you do. They do not mandate that physicians participate in the Death With Dignity Act; a patient must find a doctor who does and they have no recourse to force a doctor to go along with it.
So, the government is not making a decision for anyone, or imposing any decision on anyone -- they are simply saying that you (patient & doctor individually) have the right to make your own decisions.
What's the harm in that? Nobody has to do anything they don't want to. So, if that's not enough, please reassure me that those who oppose physician-assisted suicide do so from a genuine place that is not about controlling other people.
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couldn't agree more
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