Golmer's Blog

Everyone knows that if you ask your average fundamentalist Christian about self or assisted termination (AKA euthanasia, right to die, doctor assisted suicide, etc.) they will tell you it is a sin, blah blah blah.

It seems that for some reason, a person’s highly subjective and personal reasons to want to terminate their own life of their own volition - usually due to suffering such as cancer, chronic pain, or some other personal reason - ought not be their own decision (or that of their family and/or doctor) to make. It seems that THEY want to be the ones to make that decision - the result of which is invariably that they should live NO MATTER WHAT until “nature takes its course.”

Of course their reasons are plentiful - one need only remember eugenics, or that Christians belief suicide damns the immortal soul, or that doctor/family assisted suicide is MURDER, etc. Even in the recent health care debate they went nuts over the thought that a terminally ill person might actually be asked about ending it all rather than spending their family’s entire savings to prolong their suffering to the bitter end.

They also try to conflate the actions of an individual making a personal decision with the help of their friends and doctors with the actions of a government trying to unburden itself of the expense of dealing with the terminal and chronically ill.

To all of those out there who would stick their nose in this highly personal and individual decision, I tell you it is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS. If an individual person makes an informed decision to end their own life without directly harming any other person and/or needs medical help in doing so, IT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS. It is not your right to take that individual RIGHT away from a person; nor is it your right to use the weight of government to do so on a massive scale. IT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.

Worry about your own life - let those others with their own motivations worry about theirs.