reality check peeps - we are ALL terminally ill. Ya know the ole "death and taxes" thing? Well, short of the rapture a-happenin' while we're alive on this here planet, we're all doomed to die.
Cheery thoughts.
Ok, maybe I should have spelt out I was talking about 'moral' right.
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
'Rights' can be anything - the Right to bear arms, The Right to fish, The Right to Free speech, The Right to argue on the internet ad nauseum.
So with a little rephrasing:
It is the Right of a medical professional to preserve a patients life at all cost.
It is the Right of a Patient to expect the utmost standard of care to maximize the chance of being cured
It is the Right of a Patient to not be coerced or forced under duress to make decisions that could result in Harm
Those could be Rights (if enough of us agree that they are Rights)
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
Not many people would choose to end their life when first diagonised with a terminal illness. (But if they did, that should be their 'right').
But terminally ill people spend considerable time coming to terms with the way their death is going to play out.
If a time is reached when they have no more hope (or energy to fight) and medicine has nothing more to offer, what 'right' do you have to deny them calling "enough's enough"?
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