[Regarding Winston's views on euthanasia]
I hope your talk about unbearable suffering and the like doesn't mean that you are suffering from depression or don't feel your life is worth living. I'm praying for you.
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You fool. The idea of euthanasia is that it is available as an option to patients suffering from a condition which would otherwise result in a protracted, painful, and inevitable death. Depression clearly does not fall into this category.
This isn't fundie at all (well, apart from the "praying for you" bit) it's a perfectly legitimate point, because depression can skew a person's perceptions in such a way that even a normal life can seem unbearable, but in such a case it is certainly preferable to treat the depression rather than allow euthanasia -- which any doctor who isn't a halfwit would recognize.
Yeah, maybe I'm not getting the context, but it seems like an expression of concern, not of fundieness.
"doesn't fit those criteria :p
I'd also have to say that this seemed like an expression of concern for Winston's well-being rather than something Fundie.
"Unbearable suffering" is *why* there are suicides from depression. And it is sometimes the case that those who are suffering from depression are not able to kill themselves. (That's why there seems to be a rise in the risk of committing suicide when depressed people start anti-depressant medication. They regain just enough ability to act to carry out what they have wanted to do for a long time.)
And,in this context, I wouldn't be offended by someone saying they would pray for me. It's just their way of saying "I care and I want to help". So prayer doesn't work -*shrug*- it's the intention and compassion that count.
:I hope your talk about unbearable suffering and the like doesn't mean that you are suffering from depression”
:or don't feel your life is worth living.”
"I'm praying for you.”
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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