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As opposed to what? Letting YOU decide if their life is worth living or not?
Well at the least giving them some counselling. I mean, what's the rush. It's not like they were in extreme physical pain or anything like that. There are assisted technologies now that could have made up for their lack of vision and hearing, and allowed them to still communicate.
I just feel like the gift of life is something that humans shouldn't have the right to take away, even if it's theirs. If freedom constitutes as being able to walk into a hospital and request for a physician to kill you, then I guess I'm living in a really effed up world lol.
Well at the least giving them some counselling. I mean, what's the rush. It's not like they were in extreme physical pain or anything like that. There are assisted technologies now that could have made up for their lack of vision and hearing, and allowed them to still communicate.
And how do you know they did not get counseling and instead made a rushed decision? And pray tell us about the technologies that can "make up for" being deaf and blind.
Why should the government tell doctors they can't help someone commit suicide with dignity if they believe that is the best thing for them?
You like Big Brother in your life, dictating doctors as to what the standard of care is?
distort much?
How do you classify a doctor killing someone as a "standard of care"?
And believing government should have no say in deciding matters of life and death is hardly big brotherism.
And how do you know they did not get counseling and instead made a rushed decision? And pray tell us about the technologies that can "make up for" being deaf and blind.
distort much?
How do you classify a doctor killing someone as a "standard of care"?
Medically assisting someone to suicide can very easily be considered part of standard care after all the psychological checks are in place.
Why is it so hard for some people to ever think outside the existing paradigm?
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And believing government should have no say in deciding matters of life and death is hardly big brotherism.
Exactly. Which is why if a doctor decides to aid his or her patient to die with dignity...and not in a hotel room with a shot gun wound to the head and brains on the wall, to be discovered by the maid, then it should not be against the law (you do understand that if something is "against the law" or "not allowed by law"... then it is GOVERNMENT INTRUSION AND CONTROL) for him to do so.
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