Right to die!
The progress of a controversial bill in UK which would allow terminally ill people to be helped to die has been blocked by the House of Lords. Lord Joffe's bill would give doctors the right to prescribe drugs that a terminally ill patient in severe pain could use to end their own life. But peers backed an amendment to delay the bill by six months by 48 votes. Lord Joffe said the move was intended to end the debate, but pledged to reintroduce his bill at a later date. The government has said it will not block a further hearing of the bill. Peers had spent the day in a passionate debate on whether or not it was right to allow people who were terminally ill to be given drugs they could then use to end their life.
posted by Farmgal @ Saturday, May 13, 2006
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This is something I have never had a firm stand on, as the issues are so confusing. Still researching and seeking. Do we as humans have a right to terminate life or is it solely God's prerogative? Sometimes individuals go through terrible suffering and releasing their hold on life seems the merciful thing to do ... I don't know ...
having just finished reading the book where is God when it hurts (philip yancey)i believe we should not take anyone's life. especially not to put them out of their misery. Its painful to see a loved one hurting but we should let them live till the Lord says its time.
While people are still divided about this right to live issue, it is not fair to put docters who essentially are healers in a position such as this one.
My question is this - who knows what the person could do, become or achieve if they were allowed to live? Always believing that they recover? Only God knows the measure of our lives.
This one puts us in atricky situation since for beginners humans have no right to terminate Life n again in some situations doin that may help lessen Human Suffering!
So it's a hard one!
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