---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote :
A woman just committed suicide with the aid of doctors in Oregon. Is this justifiable in your own thinking? Of course! You wouldn't let a dog suffer like that. It's only the religious that object to it due to worries about their "immortal soul". They are most welcome to die in miserable agony if that is their desire. Everyone should have that right, but give me the morphine! But I don't see why they should have a say in what the rest of us choose, or don't they in America? In the UK the church is part of the establishment and Bishops get a say in legislation. Can be good, can be bad, it depends on them as people, but them having a block vote and making rules based on the pure conjecture of an immortal soul strikes me as outdated. Vatican thinker brands US woman's suicide 'wicked' http://news.yahoo.com/vatican-thinker-brands-us-womans-suicide-wicked-155629813.html http://news.yahoo.com/vatican-thinker-brands-us-womans-suicide-wicked-155629813.html Vatican thinker brands US woman's suicide 'wicke... http://news.yahoo.com/vatican-thinker-brands-us-womans-suicide-wicked-155629813.html A senior Vatican official has condemned as "wicked" the assisted suicide of Brittany Maynard, an American woman suffering from terminal brain cancer. &... View on news.yahoo.com http://news.yahoo.com/vatican-thinker-brands-us-womans-suicide-wicked-155629813.html Preview by Yahoo