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Heh, obviously only a handful of you know what you're talking about.

Nowadays, it's become the point of the government making choices for you. In other words, they seem to think as the Communists do. "You do not know what's good for you, so we will know for you."

You people who think we should suck it up and deal with it either have had no pain or think you have had pain. I had almost everything taken away from me in an ATV accident on the Fourth of July. I now have an almost perforated liver. The bruise covering my liver will not repair itself for many months, and if I ******** up, it'll completely perforate and I will die in less than ten minutes. So now I'm letting this get in the way of everything I'd like to do... I can't lift weights anymore, I can't march in my band, I can't go to my friend's house to play football, I can't do lots of s**t because if I do, I'll die. I also broke my wrist, but that'll pass. It'll heal up, and I won't feel that until I'm fifty. As for my liver, I can't do s**t about it. I'm hindering my own growth, and I'll become fat and miserable. Do you think that's justifiable suicide? I was 130 pounds. I had a six-pack. I worked out. I had a girlfriend who I loved. I had a life that I loved. But now, I can't really get over the fact that my metabolism's going to slow down before this liver heals. I can't help but notice that my health is declining, and soon I'll sink into heart problems. Is that justifiable suicide? Is it justifiable Assisted Suicide, should one of my friends help me avoid the humiliation?

Not really. I may not be able to strain myelf, but I can still turn to a healthy diet and walk around the block every day to keep up a daily excercise routine. I would only condone suicide to those who can't move or help themselves. While hindering, a broken wrist and a bruised liver isn't enough to keep me down and physically retarded. So for all of the whiney people who think a breakup or something petulant as that is enough to justify suicide, you're wrong. I don't believe I have the right to stop someone from commiting suicide, because no one does. If you want to die, kill yourself. But keep the rest of us out of it, because no one's feeling sorry for you.

I didn't say I wouldn't kill myself if my liver was perforated. If that thing popped, I wouldn't wait for the color to drain from my face; I'd kill myself. I have a Colt .45 in a gun locker, and I know how to use it. Sure, it'll probably pop up in my face and break a few teeth, but I'll be dead by that time. That's without hope, and that's unhelpable.

Assisted Suicide? Well, if the person is determined to get it for quite some time [like a minimum of three months] unless terminally ill, then you should let it happen..

However, if you have a doubt of his true feelings and stand, then keep going, you never know it might be a sickness affecting his brain or something of that caliber.

Euthanasia is in no way "aggressive," I wrote my term paper on it about 3 years ago, it was about the time that that court case was going on... I think it should be legalized. After seeing my grandfather pretend to be a vegi-man for almost a year, I would have given anything to let him go. He was miserable, and I'm sure the worst part of it was he couldn't play poker every weekend with us. When people die, they're always in a better place, people always say that, wel if that was the truth why not let them go earlier. The only reason we don't practice euthanasia is because we're afraid of law suits and murder raps. If people are living only on machines, if they can not move, breath, make their heart beat, or even take a piss without a machine facilitating the actions, they should be allowed to die.

And for the mention of suicide, the taking of one's own life... Well, if you're that depressed and determined to get off this planet, then go for it. Noone wants to hear you whine anyways.