URL: http://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#5_June_2011_(Dr._Kevorkian)
Dr. Kevorkian, who helped 130 people escape from unending and useless pain, has died.
The impetus to prohibit assisted suicide in the US comes from Christianity, and this issue reveals the twisted nature of Christian morality. I agree with those Christians that murdering you would be wrong, but their reasons and mine are different. I think it's wrong for your sake, supposing you want to live. They think it's wrong because it goes against the orders of their deity.
So what happens if you are in horrible, unending pain and death is your only way out? Regardless of whether the pain is caused by illness or state-inflicted torture, I hope you succeed in escaping, but they go on following the orders of their deity, which say you are supposed to suffer and suffer and suffer. What you want is of no importance to them in either case.
It is entirely consistent that many of them think it is wrong to kill a fetus that isn't a person yet, but don't mind executing adults, and support policies of torture.
Assisting suicide must be legalized, but until it is, I salute the heroes that enable incapacitated suffering people to escape.
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