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by siliconunit 1330 days ago
It really boils down to medical professionals developing one or more protocols to a peaceful death, this has been hindered by too much religious crap being forced down to everyone. Just give me a bag of nox and leave me high and happily pass out and die ffs.
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sniperjoe360 1330 days ago
On the contrary, the "religoius crap" is the guiding reason why we have modern hospice and palliative care at all. From the creator of modern hospice's biography posted at the hospice she founded:

https://www.stchristophers.org.uk/about/damecicelysaunders

"Cicely's strong Christian faith was a fundamental factor in her commitment to the dying"

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nrb 1330 days ago
That sounds orthogonal to what the parent is saying, which is that religious leaders fight vehemently against the legalization of physician-assisted suicide.
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sniperjoe360 1316 days ago
It sounds orthogonal because it is orthogonal. But it's true and I provided the original source to back up my claim. Hospice and palliative medicine is an accepted by all major faiths.

Physician assisted suicide is another seperate issue - and "pulling the plug" on a comatose patient is NOT euthanasia. That is hospice and palliative care.

You're beating the straw man my friend...

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