and i want to talk about this
case
uh... that i learned about today from belgium c_n_n_ reported on this pearly
here today
there are to death
twin brothers
that uh... there dr
realized they were also going blind
and would be unable to see each other
and daily
repeatedly
said
and up
afforded through but they repeatedly talked about how
that's it they're done they don't want to living
and uh... so what happened is the but their doctor in belgium it is legal
indulge in to do this but their doctor
euthanize them
and
they were forty five-year-old man their names have not been made public
i don't know if that was a decision from them or their family or whatever
but they were legally put to death by lethal injection at the broth brussels
university hospital
on december fourteenth
so
uh...
c_n_n_ was talking about this report when writing is actually going its own
another contributor
forgive me i remember her name
and the kind of frame the discussion as if it was uh...
like a controversial kind of thing
and their the reason being that these people they were not terminal they were
still gonna live you know
by all accounts much longer than the age of forty five there is no other
uh... you know problems associated with
being deaf and blind terms of further physical problems
but they were definitely blog
so they framed that is if it it was like a controversial thing that happened and
here's the thing like i get why they have to do that they have to cut
pay lip service to via other side of this debate and
and uh...
make them feel as if this is something that's questionable and
and we should to get through it cetera
but there's only three states in the united states of america that have
euthanasia doctor assisted suicide
and there are strict rules and regulations associated with it as there
are in belgium
and uh... yet to be an adult yet uh... the save repeatedly yet these awful all
of our options except rod ono specifically how those things are
defined
but i think it's out washington state
colorado and oregon
i believe those are the three you guys cannot correct me if i'm wrong
all the other states in the united states of america
forty seven states
have uh... you know of green with uh... i'll more
old-school
i guess you could say religious interpretation that says uh... uh...
you you can't make
your own decision tipping your life
even giving
from
extenuating circumstances likes being deaf and blind and even being
if there are serious serious quality of life issues
like you're affected by terminal cancer and you're gonna go very shortly
and i read uh... in the article as well about this on uh...
i believe the original through trade bc news
uh... there's been something like a thousand since two thousand eleven
thousand uh...
cases of euthanasia
belgium most of the case of the overwhelming majority of cases where
people with terminal cancer and a half horrible quality of life
and they had made the decision
uh... to go ahead and ended
and look uh...
and some people might disagree with me on this and that's it
that's fine
it's called america
welcome do it right
but the thing is
i don't even think this is a a
a controversial issue
i mean i think this is really a debatable issue
so the truth
if somebody determines
their quality of life is is horrible
if somebody determines
they feel as if they have no further reason to live and they wanna and their
own life and they want to do it
in a humane way
but to not have to
you know turn their car on in their garage in inhale the fumes or
true to yourself in the head
you leaving your family devastated
if somebody determines that
i find it
the height of arrogance
for either of third party to step in and set by i'd personally disagree with your
decision about your life
and therefore i will impose upon you and tell you you can do it
right are fine at the height of arrogance reader up
third party to do it or the state to do it
i mean you want to talk about
actually believing in
the idea of freedom and not using it as this jingoistic word to throw around at
a rally
if you actually believe in the idea of freedom and self-determination
if you actually believe in the tenants of small government
than you would have to concede
that somebody should have the right
too
and their own life if they
if they want to end
here's the thing look but i mean
we accept that argument
within talks break then
that's more humane in my opinion
we say what they were really really suffering we want them to have to go
through that
so will put them down
in in a very uh... humane way
now obviously i don't condone that for a third party saying okay we're gonna put
down his old person
now insurance companies
uh... hold back here all the time so in a way they are doing that
so the actual deaf panels twenty-two's conservatives are the opposite
the actual deaf panels or the insurance company
now like the conservative salman dot is there a nickel dozens now they were
made the movie and a half if insurance companies the for-profit mailman
that often census people to death but in terms of somebody making their own
decision
they should be able to
and
the only counterargument that has some validity to it is when people say
uh... you know what kyle you don't want to have
uh... ingrained in a society
the idea that life is not precious
and if you do that
there could be up
disastrous consequences
and it's essentially it's a slippery slope alike argument as if to suggest
that you know all the sudden if we legalize euthanasia
that uh... tomorrow like thirty percent of the population would kill themselves
at number one i'd just don't think that's true in reality now i have no way
proving that now because we don't
i think maybe you could point to
the places they do have it and say see there's no epidemic of people killing
themselves
so i guess to a certain extent we could prove that that wouldn't happen
but i don't think that's a realistic answer number one
and number two yuka sato benchmarks to not allow things like that so you could
say
you know well you need to be an adult to make the decision children below a
certain age can make that decision because they
you know the same way that they can make decisions for sex they haven't fully
develop their minds are fully functioning yet
and they have a ways to go before they can make their own decision so you could
have rules and regulations and restrictions
you can even go as far as to say
uh... hero ardent the diagnostic criteria have to meet new needs to be
either a terminal illness rest of the
uh... something that affects quality of life
ted said this is the degree or did this standard
anything that would be a step in the right direction right
soul are i don't want to go into all the specifics in the details as to the
crafting like a bill on air here about what makes sense with euthanasia and
what doesn't
but here's what i do not
what i do know is that
not only does it not sit with me right this early
i think it is quite clearly immoral and unethical
and do whatever whatever phraseology wani used to say is flat out wrong
for somebody to step in
and let's say hypothetically by end up having
terminal cancer
i got five months left to live
uh... you know i can make it to the bathroom
uh... with the high need somebody to change me all the time on so utterly
miserable
uh... you know nobody wants to be around me and i are my family's gone out of the
trip whatever right you can come up with all that
some kind of hypothetical scenario that really has happened in real life right
to think that
i could'nt
in
the safety and comfort of a hospital
make the rational decision
assuming all the other avenues are exhausted
to uh... device awfully certainly for those of morphine or have a doctor do it
to think that that
is not
within
uh... the confines of
what constitutes a liberty
and freedom and justice and morality
is
silly and childish to say the least
it's also
selfish
and
tragically comical
so if you have how's that for clarity my clear enough on this