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Gary Cartwright

Last Rights

Shouldn’t we be able to end our lives however and whenever we want?

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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009, 5:49 pm
Gordon says:
Your argument does not hold up. Lloyd did not give his permission to be murdered. I knew him and he did not watch his mother waste away in a nursing home; he visited her occassionally and it was not a pretty sight, but mostly she had trouble communicating and could not walk after having a stroke. You make it sound like he watched her steadily waste away. The statement that he didn’t want to go that way is ridiculous, I can’t think of anyone who wants to die in a nursing home. Kim admitted that he did not want to die; it was murder. Lloyd Yarbrough was a good person and did not deserve for someone to kill him; someone who was tired of taking care of him after only two years; someone he trusted and loved. Your attempt to build sympathy for this murderer is feeble and I pray the people of Texas see through it.

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009, 8:31 pm
Devin Greaney says:
Wether you agree or disagree with laws against abortion on demand, the Pro Life secular argument goes for laws against abortion is this-- the state is there to use its police power to prevent or punish the taking of the life, liberty or property from an individual by force. And since a fetus is, or very possibly could be, an individual and unable to give that consent we should have laws against abortion. However this situation does not exist in the case mentioned in the article because everyone involved was able to give consent and no force was used against anyone. Though as a Catholic I will never be comfortable with this, I have trouble finding a reason to make laws against assisted suicide based on the principal laws are there to protect someone against force or fraud. Just don’t ask me to give the deadly dosage, nor will I ask someone to give me the dosage.

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009, 11:14 am
Kathy says:
I agree with Gary Cartwright’s article "Last Rights". If a terminal illness should befall me, I believe that only myself and my loved ones should decide if, when and how I would end my life----not complete strangers (state government, right to life organizations, etc.)

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