> > I think if someone is bad off enough, they should have the right to choose
> > for themselves.
> > That said, they should also be shielded from the government encouraging
> > them to choose assisted suicide if that is *not* what they want.
> I don't think anybody has objections towards putting people out of their
> missery, but they have objections about... external interference.
That is where my objections would lay, & especially if that interference is
coming from the government.
> This is fact: a lot of medical decisions are forced on people these days. They
> bing you a grandpa and you can tell it is the nephew and son and aunt calling
> all the shots and if grandpa does not want to do something they press and pres
> and press until he yields.
> Professionals are pissed off because they are getting euthanasia requests for
> nothing burguers and they need to waste half an hour telling people and their
> relatives they are not signing for an euthanasia over an sprained ankle.
> Specially because that is half an hour they could be devoting to people who
> actually needs medical services.
Here, I would hope such "encouragement" would be dealt with as a possible
life insurance fraud attempt, similar to how other suspicious deaths are
looked at.
> Opposite is also true, there are lots of relatives pressing in order to have
> grandma subsists in a morphine sustained zombie state that everybody else know
> is inhuman.
Yeah some do that also. That does not always come from a bad place... some
of them just cannot accept that nothing else can be done... but it is still
not good for the person going through it.
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