[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore or Snape

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 141396



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Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore or Snape



Sherry Gomes  wrote:
 "Let's just say to start, that I am incapable of imagining any good reason
for one person to kill another person, especially when it is someone who has
trusted you implicitly, in the face of the doubt of others, someone who has
probably
even loved you.  But even in general, I can't imagine any circumstances in
which I could kill another person, even if it was for the so-called greater
good."
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CH3ed: 
What if the person in question is dying a prolonged horrible painful death?
I realize there are people who are of the opinion that last-option
euthanasia is not a ligitimate option, but shouldn't that be the patient's
own choice? Those with the conviction that life regardless of its quality is
preferable than death may choose to suffer (tho I think one really has to
have had experience of prolonged contact with the terminally ills in
hospices to really get a good idea of it. As an elf in Lord of the Rings
says, 'Let those who have not seen night swear to walk in the dark
(paraphrasing)'). However I don't think they should get to say that those
who would choose to end their life and suffering on their own term are
wrong. Whoever pays the price gets to choose the course, in my book. In this
case if it turns out that DD did indeed ask Snape to kill him to protect
others and for the greater cause, then I wouldn't hold grudge against Snape
for DD's death (tho I still think him a
 git). 

CH3ed
		

Sherry now:

I figured this topic would have to come up eventually.  Yes, my father died
of cancer, lymphoma that was scattered throughout his entire body.  Yet, he
did not want to die, and he fought to live, one more day, one more minute of
life.  He was in agony.  If he had chosen to die, by his own hand, who could
blame him?  But he would not ever have asked one of his adult children, or
his wife, or a sibling, to end his life.  Also, as a child, when my
rheumatologists and my eye doctors had to tell me the facts of life for the
rest of my life, they impressed upon me the idea that where there's life
there's hope.  not that I go around dreaming of impossible cures, but I'd
never consider having another person kill me to get me out of my misery.  My
dad wouldn't have asked one of us to kill him to stop his pain.

I think what I so strongly object to, which nobody's objections have
answered is that I do not believe Dumbledore would ask someone else to kill
him.  He would have to know the incredible burden of guilt that would lay on
someone who loved him.  a burden you could never get over.  i am
fundamentally against the idea of euthanasia, because it's a slippery slope,
and there are people in the world who think that people like me are a drain
on society and should be put out of the world's misery.  But a person
choosing to sacrifice their own life for the good of others is a different
thing.  But Dumbledore didn't need Snape to do that.  He was already
slipping down the tower.  He could simply have let go and dropped I think.
If he asked Snape or arranged with Snape to be killed by Snape's hand, I'm
thinking he's possibly even more evil than Voldemort.  

Sherry