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2011-06-03 15:58:00
Macbeth
Banned
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Jack Kevorkian has died, but the cause he long championed - physician-assisted suicide - lives on.

The ghoulish-but-folksy physician died Friday not by his own hand but at a hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., where he was being treated for pneumonia and kidney problems. He was 83.
So for all the religious folks on the forum- is Jack Kevorkian in heaven with angels and harps or burning in the eternal fires of hell?

Bible says no man can take his own life and Jack did help a bunch of people off themselves. But he also eased a lot of suffering, and brought a lot of happiness to people which is a pretty big thing in the bible.

So yeah where is he now? I hope he's in heaven, whatever the hell that is.
2011-06-03 16:16:22
Uzique
dasein.
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so are you asking for a discussion of metaphysics or ethics here?

i'm for assisted suicide
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
2011-06-03 16:24:35
13urnzz
Banned
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RIP Jack
2011-06-03 16:53:38
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
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Wormfood.
Xbone Stormsurgezz
2011-06-03 17:09:08
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
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Depends on your interpretation of the bible and, like so many religions, which bits you adopt and which bits you ignore. Not everyone believes that unbaptized babies get sent to limbo, so why shouldn't some people believe that no divine wrath is focused on assisted suicide for the terminally ill? The thought that God sends pains and illnesses to punish the deserving and that it is their duty to suffer them until they breathe no longer is so archaic that it makes me want to puke.

I'd much rather do something more fun than sit in a chair or lie in a bed for my death, though.

Legal debate and interpretations of the Hippocratic Oath seem far more interesting than things backwater bible thumpers have to say about it.
2011-06-03 17:13:22
13urnzz
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i liked the first draft best, unnamed . . .

 

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