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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.

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

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.