Reply #6: Hmmm.. let me ask you a question..... [View All]

[Sarah Ibarruri]

Do you think people who are dying of a terminal illness that is debilitating or causing them pain, are not depressed due to the terminal illness or the pain?

I think people who are dying of an illness cannot exactly be joyful and kicking up their heels in happiness.

People must be permitted to take their lives, if that is what they decide to do. I think people who have mental retardation do not have their wits about them and therefore cannot decide for themselves. However, people who don't have some form of mental retardation, but are merely dying of, say, cancer, and depressed because they are dying, and want to get it over with, should have the right and the opportunity.

Again, this is an issue in which the religious feel they should have the right to manipulate others, and they should not.