RE: Assisted suicide?
January 5, 2012 at 9:15 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2012 at 9:23 pm by Jackalope.)
(January 5, 2012 at 8:30 pm)Napoleon Wrote: For me, life support is different. Taking someone off life support is not the same as actively 'putting someone down'.
It is. I only included that anecdote because it was the closest I have had to a personal experience with the matter. To me, the issues are more complex when you're talking about active euthanasia.
To those who are in the position of making the decision - I'm not sure that there is a always a useful distinction to be made. In the end, removing life support had the same result. Given the inevitable outcome of withdrawing life support, I'm not sure that I can make a distinction other in the fact that euthanasia would probably have been faster.
