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It is said that life is suffering. While not everyone is suffering in this moment, most people will face suffering at some point in their life. At the very least, a large percentage of us will approach old age and diseases that bring about suffering towards the latter stages of life. To compound the problem, the fear of death only propels people to find way to prolongs life and by extension prolonging suffering.

Since most of us have the ability to end our lives and by extension end our suffering, we also have two choices: choose to die and choose to end suffering, or choose to live and choose to suffer. We are, at the very least, since most people will not choose suicide, a masochistic species that chooses to suffer. And keeping someone alive is sadistic in that the choice to keep another alive is to keep them in suffering.
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Very interresting, Oesteoron. I'm not sure what to say, really. I don't disagree with you.
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huh???? Im confussed......Need more coffee lmao
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Very true.
A common opinion si that the only reason why euthenasia/suicide is still illegal is that some religions declare it to be a sin therefore, in order to legalise it, the government/swould have to face down overwhleming religious opposition.
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Pain is an internal experience even though it is shared. While I agree on the point of religion, image if we say someone's pain on a daily basis.

What if, instead of hearing someone speak about the daily pain of migraines, we could see a vice being tightened on their head each and every day. Would the visual aid us in wanting to see an end to suffering.
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Why should religious opposition matter? Surely is is against human rights to have a religion you don't necessarily believe in dictate what the laws governing your life/death are?
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Religions only reflect the fears of the population it serves. Many humans fear death, have religious laws against suicide and murder, are also ways to assauge the fear of death, dying, or notions of an afterlife.
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It shouldn't but unfortunately it does.
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When it comes to euthanasia I can see both sides of the arguement, but religion should have nothing to do with it except in the case of believers in that religion, ie: Christians not believing in euthanasia therefore not practicing it. What have those beliefs got to do with an atheist in permenant agony due to an inoperable cancer in the brain?
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Hungry lion says to deer; "I'm attracted to you" (interpretation; I'm hungry, you're my next meal, if I can catch you!!!)
Suffering; (interpretation; I have what I don't want, or, I don't have what I want)
Suffering......
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nad...in any hospital today, we can find people "forced" to be alive and against their will by machines. These people are not meals. These are others people forcing someone to remain alive against nature.

People who fear death usually do to others what they would want done to them.
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Very deep
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unfortunately, as much as i want to die right now, i cant. i just cannot hurt my son. so i continue to sit in my room and go f*cking insane and suffer
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What I am saying guilliano is that because religion is still such a powerful force in thsi world (look at George Bush for example) that's why it cant or wont be legalised.
I agree with you that it should be legalised.
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In the case of mental illness the person involved could be argued not to be in a rational state of mind to make the decision. In the case of someone who is in pain and is going to die due to the illness anyway I personally believe that an end to suffering, should it be that person's wish, is the right thing to do
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I'm not arguing with you Red, just saying that the wishes of the religious should not affect the wishes of others. In the case of euthanasia it is similar to abortion, which is legal against the wishes of religion, only it is the person who will die making the choice. The religious have the option not to participate
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