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| Article 15- Human Life | ||
| 15.1 | Human Life | |
| The meaning and value of Human life has been debated since the first human civilizations. | ||
| To be human is to be the living embodiment of the paradox of life and the absolute– to be capable of great feats of selflessness, compassion and love. To be capable of acts of terrible self-hate, evil and destruction. |
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| 15.2 | The right to a quality and dignified life | |
| It is an essential principle of this constitution that all humans have a right to a quality and dignified life. This principle means more than a generalized statement of life regardless of what the quality or context. |
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| It should be the right of an expected mother to choose whether it is in her bests interests to carry a baby to full term. It should be the absolute right of both parents of a severely physically incapacitated new born baby to choose to continue its life. |
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| Laws or belief systems that enforce life without any consideration of the quality of life shall always considered barbaric, cruel and against the very meaning of life they claim to cherish. |
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| 15.3 | The right to die with dignity | |
| It is an essential principle of this constitution that all humans have the right to choose to die with dignity. |
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| Human technology enables life to be sustained and perpetuated far beyond the scope of previous generations. With these gifts, human life can be saved and repaired. Yet it is also true that human life can be extended beyond a point whereby the quality of life is marginal. |
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| A solitary bed in a hospital or elderly home should not become the standard path to which all our lives inevitably end. Instead, our society should strive to enable its citizens to die well just as they have lived well, in the comfort of home, in the presence of love, in a state of peace. |
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| As a state must never arbitrate on the life and death of its citizens, it must rest on the choice of the individual to find a balance between life and science and the quality of personal life. |
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| Belief systems or laws that make no consideration for the essential right of a person to choose to die with dignity shall always be considered barbaric, cruel and against the very meaning of life and the principles of this Constitution. | ||
| 15.4 | The right to Life and the new covenant | |
| For some it is believed that in human life holds the seed of the soul so that by its unnatural termination a terrible act against the will of God is performed. In truth, acts of far more terrible cruelty occur between men and women every day in homes around the world than the ending of a blessed life with dignity. | ||
| Such beliefs in the sanctity of human life are to be commended. However, it is the quality and dignity of life and those living and in control of their own bodies that should take precedence. Not to do so, would be to will the injustice and indignity of pain and sorrow on souls who deserve better. | ||
| Everything is remembered. Nothing is lost. It is to respect life in the quality of living, to respect the wisdom of the new covenant. |
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