The bill is being lobbied by a 61 year old Stoughton man who is undergoing treatment for stomach cancer.
But Lipkind, 61 of Stoughton, is a fighter. He knows he can’t defeat his cancer, but he’s determined to die on his own terms, and not at the hands of his disease.
He’s pushing legislation to allow doctors to legally write prescriptions for people who choose to end their lives by self-medicating. Only mentally competent people suffering from a terminal illness would be eligible under the proposed law.
I don't mean to be insensitive to his suffering and his situation but the truth of the matter is, if he wants to kill himself, nothing is stopping him but his own conscience.
Thou shalt not kill has a way of stopping you from carrying out such acts.
Setting aside mortal sins and offenses against God, the ethical problem with these kinds of bills is, it forces other people in society to carry out the murders.
“It’s a very personal decision (to end one’s life), and I don’t think I could make such a decision,” he said, “but people should have the wherewithal to die as they would prefer to die.”
At least Lipkind has the decency to be honest about it. When it comes to taking a handful of pills, he couldn't do it but he'd like to give sick people the right to signal others to do it from their sick beds.
It's "The Onus Is On You Death With Dignity Bill.
Are the people who come up with these ideas the same people who say they don't want to force their ideas and convictions upon society?
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