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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
I would happily see us allow assisted suicide HOWEVER, only in cases where the person wishing it has a permanent, uncurable, and very painful condition. I'd also want a number of doctors (say at least 5?) to sign off on the fact that the person has such a condition.
Allowing people to kill themselves just because they're old, "done with life", finding things difficult is obviously not OK.
However, forcing someone to live in serious pain - sometimes agony - and in fact sometimes artificially keeping people alive in such a state... is simply inhumane. I'm talking about cases where you have elderly people whose limbs are literally rotting off of their bodies, and whose insides are so messed up that they are vomitting their own feces on a daily basis, and people in this state are kept alive sometimes for years.
So whilst I can appreciate that it's something that is unfortunately open to abuse if not handled properly - there is absolutely nothing (at all) morally "right" in keeping someone alive when they are in so much pain that they want to die, if it's known that theres no other way for that pain to end.
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youre worrying about a tiny minority to put the massive massive majority at risk
the person who is dying can have his treatment stopped, take pain killers and nile by mouth and do not rescuscitate is already enacted on thousands of people allowed to die...one can take poison to die but cant be assisted in taking it....the current situation is far enough.
11-09-2015, 04:47 PM
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