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No, Helping Your Family Commit Suicide
Is Not Compassionate

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Posted By: earlybird, 11/7/2023 11:31:45 AM

On Oct. 17, CNN’s Bianna Golodryga interviewed the filmmaker behind “Last Flight Home,” a daughter’s chronicle of her father’s final days before euthanasia. Ondi Timoner, who made the film about the late Eli Timoner, described her father’s sudden decision to die by choice rather than naturally from his terminal illness.(snip)Timoner’s impulse to support and love her dying father was a beautiful desire but sadly misdirected by the haze of lies surrounding euthanasia. Twelve U.S. states are considering legalizing euthanasia in 2023, and another 10 states currently permit it. Canada recently expanded its euthanasia program to people who are not physically ill.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: earlybird 11/7/2023 11:39:03 AM (No. 1593766)
FTA: “Aiming at the death of someone — saying that it is better that you do not exist — is false compassion,” Camosy wrote in an email. “Non-violence, accompaniment, pain-management, and communal hospitality need to be at the heart of authentic compassion.” The solutions to eliminating the “need” for euthanasia burden us with care for one another. They should. Human beings have lived in community for all of recorded time. We do not outgrow dependence when we outgrow training wheels. Reliance on each other is a lifelong blessing. Forgetting this reality leads us to fear death more than we should.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: snakeoil 11/7/2023 11:44:28 AM (No. 1593769)
If you have a terminal, incurable disease and are in constant pain, why is it the government's duty to insure that you continue to suffer up to the bitter end? Vets put down animals all the time. Is an animal more important than a human?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Quigley 11/7/2023 12:13:44 PM (No. 1593779)
The author is a sophomore at Hillsdale College. I am much closer to dealing with these issues personally than i am to her age. It is a subject that deserves much thought. I have no idea about the issues she raises or what to think about them.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Harlowe 11/7/2023 1:29:05 PM (No. 1593812)
#2~ “Is an animal more important than a human?” / An animal was not created in the image of God; God breathed life into Adam; human beings have a body, soul, and spirit; God gave humans Ten Commandments that include, “Thou shalt not murder.” Thou shalt not murder another human. #3~ “I have no idea about the issues she raises or what to think about them.” For people of faith, “assisted suicide” or “euthanasia” or any euphemism chosen to mask the reality of “murder” is unacceptable not only in obedience to one of the Ten Commandments (Thou shalt not murder) but in a personal willingness to place faith and trust in God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit to bring us to Him in His own way and time. Jesus took on human form and suffered “in human form” never calling on deliverance from the pain and suffering He endured prior to and, most especially, when being nailed to the cross, being crucified—crucified to save mankind from sin, death and the devil. Simply because science and social acceptance make “assisted suicide” available or trendy does not make “assisted suicide” an acceptable decision for people of faith. People of faith have endured the trials and tribulations of life for centuries through prayer, through faith, and trust in God—may it be so now at this perilous time of worldwide chaos.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: southernboy 11/7/2023 1:36:40 PM (No. 1593818)
Maybe some should walk the walk before they judge! It's mighty easy to say "Nay" until you see a Loved One you are directly responsible for suffering relentless pain with the only question being "how long can you make it last for them." Because you don't want to "play God!"
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Harlowe 11/7/2023 1:54:06 PM (No. 1593826)
#5~ Been there, done that—watching the suffering of dearly loved family members and having to make a life or death decision on their behalf. Letting go and letting God. Not judging, not “playing God” but simply sharing the teachings of Scripture and attempting to “walk the walk” as Scripture teaches—taking the narrow gate: “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” (Matthew 7:13-14)
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Illinois Mom 11/7/2023 2:27:10 PM (No. 1593846)
#4 & #6 Been there myself. You explained it all beautifully. As I watched my mother's last breath I was comforted by the fact that she had just completed all the breaths that God had intended for her. No more, no less.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Miss T 11/7/2023 4:56:12 PM (No. 1593955)
About ten years ago, Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote a lengthy essay explaining that euthanasia / assistance in suicide was in accord with Christian principles of caring for suffering people. Tutu reduced the whole question into a cost/benefit analysis. He concluded that the resources spent on the dying should be redirected to the living. I lost all respect for Tutu in that moment. In Canada, assisted suicide is now being offered to people who are chronically depressed. The reasoning is that same cost/benefit analysis. That reasoning is itself an assault on human dignity.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 11/7/2023 4:58:39 PM (No. 1593958)
Whatever happened to a .38 snub nose and a cheap hotel room as a possible solution? Why should anyone else be involved? Or an OD of fentanyl for that matter?
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Harlowe 11/7/2023 11:35:44 PM (No. 1594147)
#7~ Thank you, bless you.
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