Poppy3
- this should follow reasons being very different - but are they? The question here being who has the right to take a life?
The Church and once the law saying suicide a crime. I do not believe in a person's lack of dignity, pain and suffering - not many do. Assisted suicide still up for question legally. This has to be strictly regulated - the person being of sound mind devoid of influence and abuse.
I put my question in the wrong box. Just got it all mixed up - sorry.
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Bob/PKB
Not sure I agree with your perspective at the beginning, but the question you've presented is, who has the right to take a life? You brought three scenarios into the question, and I think there is not one right answer which encompasses the three, suicide, assisted suicide, capital punishment.
Strictly speaking, were we to adhere to the commandment, "Thou shalt not kill", capital punishment would be out of the question. The only things adults really suffer as punishment, are the loss of time and money. Taking ALL of one's time....ultimate punishment.
I support the death penalty, administered in a much more timely fashion, but do not want to have the responsibility of so-sentencing someone to death.
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David's mother has a history of drug abuse, heroin being her DOC. She also enjoys painkillers and can, rumor has it, drink you under the table (and be very unpleasant in the process).
mycatsmom
In the old testatment, it talks about stoning people to death; or putting them to death by the sword.But, Jesus came to straighten all that out. He taught love and acceptance and equality to everyone .Yet, he received the death penalty himself.
My church has never said anything one way or the other about the death penalty or suicide. And yes, it is a Christian church. When I was a young teen my mom told me it was actually illegal to commit suicide. I wonder if that law is still on the books.They've never arrested anyone yet for trying suicide.
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