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RE: Shouldn't the right to die be a human right?
February 4, 2017 at 3:56 pm
(February 4, 2017 at 2:35 pm)WisdomOfTheTrees Wrote: If you're literally dying of terminal cancer or some other form of incurable disease that will kill you and there's 0 chance of survival, and you only have a short while to live and are in incredible pain, okay. I'd say that's when I'd be cool with assisted suicide.
What if the person does not need assistance?
Define a short while. Life is an incurable disease with 0 chance of survival. Does the person, of his/her own volition, get to decide when they have had enough?
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RE: Shouldn't the right to die be a human right?
February 4, 2017 at 4:12 pm
(February 4, 2017 at 4:01 pm)WisdomOfTheTrees Wrote: (February 4, 2017 at 3:56 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: What if the person does not need assistance?
Define a short while. Life is an incurable disease with 0 chance of survival. Does the person, of his/her own volition, get to decide when they have had enough?
Life is not an incurable disease, that's stupid and a perversion of the meaning of disease.
Fine, life is incurable with 0 chance of survival, drop the disease. Define the term and answer the questions.
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RE: Shouldn't the right to die be a human right?
February 4, 2017 at 6:35 pm
(December 15, 2016 at 3:30 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I'm not gonna lie, I am very surprised by the responses of this thread. A while back ago we were all extremely worried about a member of this forum after he had made a string of suicidal posts. We organized that someone who lived in his country call the police, who broke down his door in the middle of the night to save him or stop him from whatever he might try to do.
While I would be upset at the loss of said person, had they gone through appropriate screening/counseling/whatever, I'd have been among the first to raise a glass and wish them well. This was not the case. It was an impetuous decision made while under the influence of intoxicants. Therein lies the difference.
If someone truly wishes to die, no matter their physical condition, as long as they are of sound mind and making the decision free of outside influence, who the fuck are we to say they can't? What's more, who the fuck are we to say their deaths can't be attended by loved ones? In most jurisdictions in this country, by simply attending the death of a beloved spouse opens you to liability as an accessory after the fact in criminal court. If you actually procured the weapon/drug/other lethal instrument to the "victim," you'll likely find yourself facing accessory to murder charges if not straight up murder.
To take the argument farther, who's to decide how much suffering is too much? What if I decide that these constant hangnails are simply too much to be lived with any longer? As long as I am in my right mind, where is it anyone else's right or responsibility to tell me no? By whose guidelines shall we base how much is too much?
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