(February 18, 2011 at 6:39 pm)OnlyNatural Wrote:(February 18, 2011 at 6:28 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Well, I support it, but only in a drastically revised form: Namely, it would be voluntary, and only people who will be spending the rest of their lives in prison or third (or more) time offenders. And, of course, there'd be counseling to make sure that the prisoner really wants to die, and of course, the actual methods would be as painless as possible.
That's an interesting idea. I wonder how many prisoners would choose to do that. Somehow, though, I don't think many would. The desire for self-preservation is pretty strong, even in the worst situations, and particularly among sociopaths and psychopaths. It would probably just offer those who are truly suicidal with an easier way out.
Well, I came up with the idea when I had heard about how Ian Brady (basically the UK's equivalent to Charlie Manson) has actually been fighting for his right to die for years (He is not terminally ill, BTW), being on hunger strike for about eight years, only surviving because of force-feeding twice a day. Looking at it, it really gave me the above idea. On the one hand, the death penalty is intrinsically flawed because we cannot be sure we're not executing the wrong guy. On the other, is there any real reason we should force somebody like Ian Brady to live longer than he wants to?
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