http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people...61492.html
I disagree with this, Depression isn't terminal. The feeling like there's no hope and no other options but suicide isn't a rational thought, that's the Depression talking. I've felt completely hopeless and suicidal myself for a long period of time and if euthanasia was an option for me then I think i'd have taken it, but now I have a somewhat enjoyable life and the hope of improving further - I wouldn't have that if I was dead
But I think this raises lots of interesting questions and i'm sure I could be moved from my position. I'm interested to hear what the people (and i am one of them) who believe that we have no right to force someone to live in agony in the case of a terminal illness feel about this, does the fact that the woman in question believes her illness is terminal count for anything? Do we have the right to end a life that isn't due to end naturally any time soon and not necessarily destined for perpetual agony?
Thoughts?
Quote:Doctors in Belgium have granted a medically depressed woman the right to end her own life.
The 24-year-old woman, named only as ‘Laura’, told doctors she had suffered from depression since she was a child and wished to end her life, local newspaper De Morgen reported.
Laura, who entered a psychiatric facility when she was 21, told the publication: “life, that’s not for me.”
"Death feels to me not as a choice. If I had a choice, I would choose a bearable life, but I have done everything and that was unsuccessful," she told the newspaper.
I disagree with this, Depression isn't terminal. The feeling like there's no hope and no other options but suicide isn't a rational thought, that's the Depression talking. I've felt completely hopeless and suicidal myself for a long period of time and if euthanasia was an option for me then I think i'd have taken it, but now I have a somewhat enjoyable life and the hope of improving further - I wouldn't have that if I was dead
But I think this raises lots of interesting questions and i'm sure I could be moved from my position. I'm interested to hear what the people (and i am one of them) who believe that we have no right to force someone to live in agony in the case of a terminal illness feel about this, does the fact that the woman in question believes her illness is terminal count for anything? Do we have the right to end a life that isn't due to end naturally any time soon and not necessarily destined for perpetual agony?
Thoughts?
“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.” - George Carlin
