corporate_whitey wrote on Mar 1^st, 2012 at 5:36pm:



In my mythology, you are me, so how I treat you is how I treat myself. I believe in giving myself maximum freedom as long as it is in the highest intent for all life. So I would not kill you against your will ... same way as I will not let you suffer a terminal illness against your will.

This is why I believe voluntary euthanasia should be an option to those of sound mind and made free of external pressures. And only available to people of certain terminal conditions.

I dont think any of you have given anything but opinion.
Why should your opinion dictate the way another lives their life?
What right do you have to say someone cant do something to themselves, just like you wouldnt want someone to do the same to you.
Law should not make illegal victimless crime because it makes the innocent victims, which defeats the purpose of law.

____ wrote on Mar 1^st, 2012 at 10:06am:


I'm all for voluntary euthanasia but let's put that aside while Rome is Burning.

corporate_whitey wrote on Mar 1^st, 2012 at 1:44pm:


And you should not be allowed to operate heavy machinery.

tonegunman1 wrote on Mar 1^st, 2012 at 8:17pm:


perfectly said. most proponents of VE are incredibly naive. imagine a situation where people are afraid of going to the doctor because they fear euthanasia? even if theat fer is midfounded it indicates that VE has brought a great degree of fear to people who think they could be coerved into suicide or considered incompetent and euthanised against their wishes.

There is nothing voluntary about it when the state, the corporation or the church is involved in killing.  Any killing by a sovereign overarching universal government can by definition not be a matter of free will and choice on the part of the victim.  No form of external governing force can be involved in a person deciding to end their life and ending it or it is not free, it is not voluntary and we are all at risk from an external Governing entity deciding to end our life on any manner of pretexts and justifications...

longweekend58 wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2012 at 9:40am:



If people break the law and commit murder then the law is the vehicle to sort these kind of matters.

One bad apple should not be used to punish all terminally ill people via excessive suffering and loss of dignity.

longweekend58 wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2012 at 9:38am:






Santorum ‘grossly mischaracterized’ Netherlands euthanasia policy

GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s “demagogic” social message of women flying small planes, worship of Israel and winking at Iran has another bizarre twist and includes elderly Dutch people wearing “Do not euthanize me” bracelets.
The Dutch government is being urged to make a public statement over Santorum’s recent comments on the Dutch euthanasia policy, in which the Republican presidential hopeful falsely claimed forced euthanasia in the Netherlands is responsible for five percent of the country’s deaths.
Labour MP Frans Timmermans is calling on Foreign minister Uri Rosenthal to make a public statement over the “scandalous” comments ushered forth by Santorum. “I have asked him to make a public statement. This cannot be allowed to rest,” Timmermans said on his Facebook page, according to Dutch News.
American media has finally begun scrutinizing comments Santorum has made in his run to the top of recent polls, showing him out in front of the GOP field. In the scrutiny was evidence of false claims by the Pennsylvania senator, called one of the most corrupt senators in the United States in 2006, over the Netherlands’ euthanasia policy.
A video posted to YouTube by Right Wing Watch, an arm of People for the American Way, shows Santorum stating the elderly Dutch wear a bracelet which reads “Do not euthanize me.” He continues with his pronouncement,
Because they have voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands, but half the people who are euthanized every year — and it’s 10 percent of all deaths for the Netherlands — half of those people are euthanized involuntarily, at hospitals, because they are older and sick. And so elderly people in the Netherlands don’t go to the hospital, they go to another country, because they’re afraid because of budget purposes that they will not come out of that hospital if they go into it with sickness.
The New York Times notes the Dutch ambassador to the US has refused comment on Santorum’s remarks, who has said the Dutch government’s preference is not to get involved in the American presidential race.
Voluntary euthanasia has been legal in the Netherlands since 2002, and accounted for about two percent of deaths in 2010, Dutch News reports. The procedure requires consent of two doctors and is carried out under strict conditions.
Dutch embassy spokeswoman Carla Bundy told the Washington Post, “According to the Ministry of Health, ‘Do not euthanize me’ bracelets do not exist in the Netherlands.”
FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan group which monitors U.S. politicians’ factual accuracy, said Santorum, during his participation at religious forum earlier in February, “grossly mischaracterized” the Netherlands euthanasia policy.
Last week, Common Dreams said Santorum is delivering a "demagogic social message," betrayed by his Mister Rogers appearance.
Santorum’s campaign has not responded to requests for explanations where the “corrupt” Senator’s sources obtained information for his euthanasia comments.