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(July 5, 2015 at 6:19 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: If you look back at the original article, she has been supposedly been treated for the past 3 years in a psychiatric facility. So she has tried treatment. If it were working, she would not be wanting to die.
Those of you who are against her doing this, do you think that mental problems produce less suffering than physical problems? How long should she have to suffer to please you?
What does "pleasing us" have to do with this issue.
Please don't try the guilt trip tactics others try on us - it won't work.
Depression is a complex issue (trust me, I know), as is modern medicine (again, from one who knows).
I don't think euthanasia is the way to go for people with mental illness. I don't even agree with it for others, unless they have no chance, are in serious pain, and there's absolutely no hope for them.
If we start euthanizing people because they have depression, where does it end? And what if, within a short timeframe, a new drug or treatment appears on the market
And what if there isn't a new drug or treatment within a short timeframe? That is the more likely situation.
If you don't want to die, don't choose it. But other people's lives are their lives, not yours.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
