And for those Englishmen who believe in an afterlife, the prospect of arriving on your host’s doorstep an hour early to be greeted by a strained smile is surely just too awkward to be contemplated.
Best reason yet for opposing assisted suicide
July 30th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Tags: The English
7 responses so far ↓
1 Marksany // Jul 30, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I fail to see how Redweld’sbeleiff in an afterlife gives him the right to restrict the choices of others who do not.
2 Unity // Jul 30, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Oh dear, yet another version of Pascal’s wager.
How tiresome.
3 Longrider // Jul 30, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Ditto the above two comments. I don’t believe in an afterlife, I do believe that people should have dominion over their own lives and if necessary the termination of such should its quality become unbearable.
4 The Remittance Man // Jul 30, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Can’t anyone just appreciate this for the humour? Great Scott! What a miserable bunch of buggers we’ve become.
5 Rumbold // Jul 30, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Wonderful finishing paragraph. Don’t agree with the rest of it mind.
6 Pa Annoyed // Jul 30, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Do you think Satan would really be caught out that way? Surely, an endless agonising misery of undignified paralysis (with or without burning brimstone) can be arranged with only minimal preparation. The fires of Hell burn 24 hours a day. It’s not like somebody has to get the barbecue lit.
Of course, given that inflicting hell on people is considered to be moral – God does it, after all – I can certainly see why Christians don’t have a problem with it. I respect your diversity on that. But I do wonder whether people are more likely to turn towards or away from grace in such dreadful circumstances? What would it say to them about God – or people – that they would allow such pain to continue? Is this not the classic ‘problem of evil’?
7 john malpas // Jul 31, 2009 at 12:03 am
I suppose you all think that death should only be measuired out by the state using soldiers or armed police. No free choice at all.
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