Busy Busy Busy

I'm sorry my posting has been very light for the past couple days of this week. Work being extremely busy combined with my being away from the office all day yesterday created condition for a "perfect storm" of activity and no rest time. I finally have time to breathe again right now, but its only a lull in the storm.

Andrew at Bound By Gravity has been discussing the Right to Die issue that became hot recently with the suicide of Ian Tremblay recently. Andrew has come out saying he feels that people do not have the right to die and "Euthanasia and assisted suicide are morally wrong. That is my stance." I can respect that.

I've never really thought hard about the subject myself. Part of me feels that people in their right mind should have the choice of ending their own life in certain circumstances but I can understand how that would be a slippery slope of what constitutes "right mind" and how this decision affects others. I can see how euthanasia could be taken too far and used to kill (I was going to say end the lives, but let's not use euphemisms for this important topic) those deemed "in too much pain". Who makes that decision? Its getting dicey for me now, it feels a lot like the arguments I used against the death penalty and who gets the right to make the decision for the rest of someone's life.

In the end, I have to agree with Andrew's position that euthanasia and assisted suicide are morally wrong. I can understand why some people want to choose their own time and method of death when they are in terrible pain, but I do not feel we should allow the floodgates to be opened on this complex issue.