(February 18, 2015 at 12:06 pm)robvalue Wrote: No, for sure, if the child wants to live, then it should live. I wasn't suggesting we make that choice for it.
This is a legal and ethical problem - How do we know that if a child wants to die that's a legitimate consent? Kids make bad decisions everyday, that's the reason parents/tutors/adults make decisions for them all the time - To prevent poor management of life choices. An adult is fully mature (on principle) and aware of what it means to choose euthanasia - A child may be reasonably aware of what dying is but it's not the same. I have some doubts regarding this. I do think that if it's a 16 year old it's a bit different, but I'm talking about 5-10 year old kids
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
