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pspat@opera.iinet.net.au (Patrick Canion) wrote:

>mado@iinet.net.au (Madeleine Croft) wrote:

>>4- Economic: we are all condemned to death. what is the cost/benefit
>>ratio to all parties for an extra day lived by an imminently dying
>>patient?
>>
>Madeleine, are you suggesting by this that if the cost/benefit ratio
>is deemed to be inappropriate then there *is* a valid economic
>argument *for* euthanasia?

No, Merely that economic considerations are ones of the considerations
Also that the vested interest in the pro-euthanasia debate of the
pharmaceutical/health industriy  is  high. They are required to
re-examine their therapeutic motives on economic grounds as well as
all the others. In time , families will have more of a say, when they
are given a voice.
>>There was agony  on the cross remember. But it was shortened by a
>>lance bearing  roman soldier.
>>Madeleine Croft
>Sorry, but Jesus had given up his soul (was dead) by the time this was
>done - refer John 19:28-37.  If they had have wanted to expedite his
>death, they would have broken his legs.  
I never named Jesus. The jury is still out as to whether Jesus died,
on the cross or with Joseph of Arimathia, had his legs broken, or a
lance pierced his heart, or was presented with a vinegar scented cloth
to extend his life. 
The allusion merely alludes to the fact that, even in those days the
possibilities of softer death were then  offered even to those
comdemned to have a slow one.>

>God Bless,
How does one address you?
>Patrick Canion
>Pastor, Manning Assembly of God, Western Australia
>pspat@iinet.net.au