>However, let's think about it in light of all our previous discussions, and
in view of the "slippery slope." Where will a materialist draw the line?
RS<<It would have to be at the point where one can be certain beyond a
reasonable doubt that consciousness has slipped away and will not come back.
The L.A. Times today reports a study done in the Netherlands:
"A new analysis of doctor-assisted death in the Netherlands--considered a
model by some advocates of assisted suicide in the United States--suggests
that caregivers there have increasingly taken the next troubling step: Ending
patients' lives without their permission."
The study concludes that 80% of the 1995 opiate-induced deaths occurred
without the patients' explicit consent, conclude that there has been a
"striking increase in the number of cases terminated without request."
Jim