https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l en-us 2017-04-17 16:50:12 UTC 2017-04-26 16:56:08 UTC hello@padlet.com ceperry20 https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166587691 http://www.nysrighttolife.org/assisted_suicide]]> 2017-04-17 16:51:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166587691 ceperry20 https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166587830 Many argue that a decision of whether or not to kill oneself is a private choice which society has no right to be concerned about. This position assumes that suicide comes from competent people making rational decisions to die, and then states that society has no business "interfering" with a freely chosen death that only effects the suicidal individual. But according to experts who have studied suicide, this stance is wrong."]]> 2017-04-17 16:51:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166587830 ceperry20 https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166588136 In a study published in "American Journal of Psychiatry" researchers checked up 35 years later with patients who had asked for doctor assisted suicide and it was shown that out of 886 people who were denied doctor assisted suicide, only 10.4% killed themselves after they had gone through years of counseling. This proves that pain is tolerable and that being killed by a doctor denies them of ever having hope of getting better

]]> 2017-04-17 16:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166588136 ceperry20 https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166589308 Those who are in "uncontrollable pain" are not receiving adequate medical attention. ]]> 2017-04-17 16:57:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166589308 ceperry20 https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166810291 Dr. Pieter Admiraal, a leader of the successful Netherlands movement to legalize euthanasia, has publicly stated that pain is never an adequate justification for euthanasia in light of modern medical treatments.]]> 2017-04-18 16:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166810291 ceperry20 https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166811473  "Tragically, pain control techniques that have been perfected at the frontiers of medicine have not become universally known at the clinical level. What we need is better training in those techniques for health care personnel -- not the legalization of physician-aided death.]]> 2017-04-18 16:28:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166811473 ceperry20 https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166812885 If, as a society, we tell people with neither a terminal illness or disability that, although they want to kill themselves, what they really need is counseling and therapy; but turn around to disabled people and tell them that they can end their suffering by allowing a doctor to kill them. How is that respecting a choice if we deny them the opportunity for therapy? We'd be saying that a life with a disability is not a life worth living]]> 2017-04-18 16:32:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166812885 ceperry20 https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166814936 "Most people with disabilities will tell you that it is not so much their physical or mental impairment itself that makes their lives difficult as it is the conduct of the nondisabled majority toward them. Denial of access, discrimination in employment, and an attitude of aversion or pity instead of respect are what make life intolerable. True respect for the rights of people with disabilities would dictate action to remove those obstacles -- not "help" in committing suicide."

]]> 2017-04-18 16:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166814936 ceperry20 https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166816046 If the legalization of doctor assisted suicide passes, then incompetent people's guardians would have authority over whether or not they should under-go euthanasia even if that person never expressed a desire to be killed.]]> 2017-04-18 16:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166816046 ceperry20 https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166818343 Many people who are considering doctor assisted suicide see themselves as a burden on their families and friends. If the people closest to them support the opposing viewpoint in helps to reinforce the idea that their life is meaningless. At that point it is no longer seen as a "right to die" but a duty to die.]]> 2017-04-18 16:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ceperry20/jyw96muzrx8l/wish/166818343