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		<title>By: Dave Donahue</title>
		<link>http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2008/12/18/on-assisted-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-24711</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave Donahue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi I see this as debatable no doubt however being an individual living with AIDS I find that assisted suicide may be a respectable endeavor if 1) The individual is no longer to care for themselves2) Becomes too much of a burden on the family and society 3) Is no longer capable of reasoning, rationalizing.  I have lived with aids for 16 years I have been hospitalized with menegitis and came close to death, I have become a burden on the family in the sense that I am no longer able to support the family I once did, I wrote a book as a final farewell to the world titled &quot;My life, a life story of a man infected&quot;  which is now available on Amazon Books and Kindle.  In the past I have been a Marine, a Navy reservist and an electrician for 13 years...my services are no longer needed so I feel that yes, as an individual with nothing to offer or anything to gain I feel that yes Im entitled to end this life as ,I see fit, it is my life and to end it on my terms is at the very least my last bit of control over it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi I see this as debatable no doubt however being an individual living with AIDS I find that assisted suicide may be a respectable endeavor if 1) The individual is no longer to care for themselves2) Becomes too much of a burden on the family and society 3) Is no longer capable of reasoning, rationalizing.  I have lived with aids for 16 years I have been hospitalized with menegitis and came close to death, I have become a burden on the family in the sense that I am no longer able to support the family I once did, I wrote a book as a final farewell to the world titled &#8220;My life, a life story of a man infected&#8221;  which is now available on Amazon Books and Kindle.  In the past I have been a Marine, a Navy reservist and an electrician for 13 years&#8230;my services are no longer needed so I feel that yes, as an individual with nothing to offer or anything to gain I feel that yes Im entitled to end this life as ,I see fit, it is my life and to end it on my terms is at the very least my last bit of control over it.</p>
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		<title>By: Dr Bob</title>
		<link>http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2008/12/18/on-assisted-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-12932</link>
		<dc:creator>Dr Bob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From that notorious pro-life site, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/facts/women_who.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;National Abortion Federation&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;blockquote&gt;Most women getting abortions (83%) are unmarried; 67% have never married, and 16% are separated, divorced, or widowed. Married women are significantly less likely than unmarried women to resolve unintended pregnancies through abortion.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

As you so elegantly put it, &quot;shit happens&quot;. Condom breaks? Kill the baby. BC pill missed? Kill the baby. No muss, no fuss, no consequences. Life is good.

I stand uncorrected: abortion is at its core about the (delusional) belief that unrestrained sexual license should have no consequences. While married utilize it, the driving force behind the religion of abortion is sexual libertinism.

Oh, I almost forgot: assisted suicide is most certainly about co-opting physicians to terminate the lives of patients -- just who exactly is writing those lethal prescriptions? The janitor? And all pro-assisted suicide organizations strongly favor active euthanasia as well as assisted suicide. It is, as they say, a gateway drug, nicely disguised in fine-sounding but deceptive language of &quot;choice&quot; and &quot;dignity.&quot; But the goal is the Netherlands: no restriction on life termination, with physicians fully on board.

And no, I won&#039;t be looking for someone to kill me when I&#039;m dying. What I will understand is the infinite value of the love and relationships with friends and family, the value of suffering, and the hope of deliverance. That, my foolish friend, is death with dignity -- not an handful of pills and a plastic bag over my head if they don&#039;t work.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From that notorious pro-life site, <a href="http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/facts/women_who.html" rel="nofollow">National Abortion Federation</a>:<br />
<blockquote>Most women getting abortions (83%) are unmarried; 67% have never married, and 16% are separated, divorced, or widowed. Married women are significantly less likely than unmarried women to resolve unintended pregnancies through abortion.</p></blockquote>
<p>As you so elegantly put it, &#8220;shit happens&#8221;. Condom breaks? Kill the baby. BC pill missed? Kill the baby. No muss, no fuss, no consequences. Life is good.</p>
<p>I stand uncorrected: abortion is at its core about the (delusional) belief that unrestrained sexual license should have no consequences. While married utilize it, the driving force behind the religion of abortion is sexual libertinism.</p>
<p>Oh, I almost forgot: assisted suicide is most certainly about co-opting physicians to terminate the lives of patients &#8212; just who exactly is writing those lethal prescriptions? The janitor? And all pro-assisted suicide organizations strongly favor active euthanasia as well as assisted suicide. It is, as they say, a gateway drug, nicely disguised in fine-sounding but deceptive language of &#8220;choice&#8221; and &#8220;dignity.&#8221; But the goal is the Netherlands: no restriction on life termination, with physicians fully on board.</p>
<p>And no, I won&#8217;t be looking for someone to kill me when I&#8217;m dying. What I will understand is the infinite value of the love and relationships with friends and family, the value of suffering, and the hope of deliverance. That, my foolish friend, is death with dignity &#8212; not an handful of pills and a plastic bag over my head if they don&#8217;t work.</p>
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		<title>By: The Doctor is Out</title>
		<link>http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2008/12/18/on-assisted-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-12930</link>
		<dc:creator>The Doctor is Out</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh I almost forgot,

&lt;blockquote&gt;You are, of course, perfectly free to end your own life, with or without such legislation. A handgun and a single bullet will do the job very nicely â€” along with a hundred other ways.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

It must be so easy for terminally ill patients who are confined to hospice beds to get guns right? Nobody is asking the physician to kill them, the legislation calls for access to lethal prescriptions so that paitents can kill themselves. Maybe you will finally understand when you are dying.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh I almost forgot,</p>
<blockquote><p>You are, of course, perfectly free to end your own life, with or without such legislation. A handgun and a single bullet will do the job very nicely â€” along with a hundred other ways.</p></blockquote>
<p>It must be so easy for terminally ill patients who are confined to hospice beds to get guns right? Nobody is asking the physician to kill them, the legislation calls for access to lethal prescriptions so that paitents can kill themselves. Maybe you will finally understand when you are dying.</p>
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		<title>By: The Doctor is Out</title>
		<link>http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2008/12/18/on-assisted-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-12929</link>
		<dc:creator>The Doctor is Out</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Unrestricted abortion, a.k.a. â€œfreedom of choiceâ€, is about the uncompromising (albeit delusional) demand for unconstrained sexual license without consequences â€” especially for women, but also for their sperm donors who want no responsibility for their casual hookups: dispose of the unplanned pregnancy, move on to your next â€œpartnerâ€, and you have achieved the perfect â€œzipless fuck.â€ &lt;/blockquote&gt;

Have you ever had sex in your life? Shit happens! Condoms break, dedicated married couples end up pregnant before they are ready, people with vasectomies even end up pregnant on occasion, and you are saying that abortion is merely a justification for tramps and mansluts to get down all the time? Do you think women want to get abortions? 

If you are trying to justify this (delusional) pro-life stance at least use some unfalsifiable bullshit claim like religion.

You fail.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Unrestricted abortion, a.k.a. â€œfreedom of choiceâ€, is about the uncompromising (albeit delusional) demand for unconstrained sexual license without consequences â€” especially for women, but also for their sperm donors who want no responsibility for their casual hookups: dispose of the unplanned pregnancy, move on to your next â€œpartnerâ€, and you have achieved the perfect â€œzipless fuck.â€ </p></blockquote>
<p>Have you ever had sex in your life? Shit happens! Condoms break, dedicated married couples end up pregnant before they are ready, people with vasectomies even end up pregnant on occasion, and you are saying that abortion is merely a justification for tramps and mansluts to get down all the time? Do you think women want to get abortions? </p>
<p>If you are trying to justify this (delusional) pro-life stance at least use some unfalsifiable bullshit claim like religion.</p>
<p>You fail.</p>
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		<title>By: Greg</title>
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		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dr. Bob, 
We need you in our medical schools!  I can&#039;t even begin to count the number of times my classmates have begun arguments with &quot;the specific&quot; and then attempted, with the unabashed approval of professors and lecturers, to attempt application to the general.  
I came across  this Victor Frankl quote from &quot;The Doctor and the Soul&quot; in my first year of medical school:  &quot;I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.&quot;
Sadly, I think he was right.  And I am compelled to believe that history is repeating itself, only this time I find myself embroiled in the conflict.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Bob,<br />
We need you in our medical schools!  I can&#8217;t even begin to count the number of times my classmates have begun arguments with &#8220;the specific&#8221; and then attempted, with the unabashed approval of professors and lecturers, to attempt application to the general.<br />
I came across  this Victor Frankl quote from &#8220;The Doctor and the Soul&#8221; in my first year of medical school:  &#8220;I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.&#8221;<br />
Sadly, I think he was right.  And I am compelled to believe that history is repeating itself, only this time I find myself embroiled in the conflict.</p>
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