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Originally Posted by LaLaLand
There's nothing worse than seeing a loved one just suffer and suffer until the inevitable (speaking from experience). I wish our euthanasia laws here were changed and there were proper channels here whereby it was possible and fully legal.
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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
he could just be saying it was a mercy kill though. There are registered places in countries in europe where it could have been done legally
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I agree with both and that's really why I think it SHOULD be legal with careful checks and balances in place, as if there was a realistic route to legitimate euthanasia then it would close up that possibility of someone making a false claim like that.
There's absolutely no benefit in keeping someone who has days or weeks to live in a critically ill condition alive if they don't want to be here. I actually find it quite barbaric, and the reasons we don't allow it are clearly based in the religious idea that suicide is a "sin".
These days it's even worse though because our ability to keep people alive - barely alive, sitting on the edge of death - improves all the time as medical technology progresses so often it's not just that we "don't allow people to choose to end their life" ... sometimes it's artificially prolonged suffering.