Is it right to "live" (miserably isolated and filled with painful despair and overwhelming desolation), which isn't living at all? Is it wrong to want doctor assisted suicide? If so, why? Who says it's not right? A silly mythical figure in a fabricated book? What about those folks who haven't lost their minds and don't believe in deities of any kind? They should be forced to suffer? Endure, just because?
Why are people *SO* caught up in the lives of those who would rather die? Why? Why not mind your own gawd damn business? Why not allow some dignity and companionship in the final moments of a tortured soul's life by not getting involved and forcing your way-of-life upon another? Anyone that goes door-to-door in their free time to 'save' their neighbors' souls with invitations to join their Church Congregation on Sunday, would at least have consistency in this matter, but everyone else should just help themselves to a nice, tall, warm glass of shut-the-hell-up.
Do you want to make a difference? Give this issue some thought, regardless as to what your stance is on this topic. Let's be progressive! Let's legalize euthanasia. Let those folks who are tired of tolerating Mankind's small-minded, power mongering the freedom to choose for themselves! Give them options. Why can't people end their lives without the fear of a failed suicide attempt, leaving them incapable of taking care of themselves, much less able to carry out their hearts' desires? Psychological and psychiatric evaluations can properly gauge if such an action is a legitimate course of action, or a mental state/disorder that can be persuaded/treated/explored. Nations send innocent young men and women to places that they have no business being and they do NOT all come back alive. Why allow lives that would be lost and/or wasted also prove to end as a waste? Does it not make sense to give some dignity to those who want to end this life by allowing others to benefit from healthy organs, rare blood types, bone marrow, strong-beating hearts, liver, kidneys and so much more? If one life, that wants to die, can improve a dozen struggling lives in poor health, why not make winners of everyone? I'm sure if I were Terry Schiavo, I would have very much liked to have died in another manner altogether. Humanity rarely gives me reason to feel pride - this is no exception.
Recap:
-Send soldiers to fight and die in a war that they never waged or wanted = acceptable.
-Oppose the suffering-suicidals' rights to die, so the struggling-to-survive may continue to suffer (especially when the death of the willing-to-die could give a new lease on life to the desperate-to-stay-alive ) = acceptable.
It is tragic how men in power attain and maintain that power, wage wars, disrespect their neighbors and then mistreat their own people without giving thought to the consequences of such actions. I hope euthanasia is an option available to EVERYONE one day that doesn't ever have to be exercised.
Sometimes it's not about exercising rights... but really more about having those rights to exercise.