andyt andyt:
If someone with a "hangnail" wants to commit suicide, why do we want to stop them? It's not as if we do much to help them deal with the "hangnail." Preventing their suicide seems more about making us feel virtuous or righteous vs giving a shit for what they're feeling. And many with "hangnails" manage to kill themselves, doctors prescription or not.
The main problem with what Dr Lowe was advocating is that the person has to be of sound mind and physically able to take the lethal dose, it's just prescribed by a doctor. There are people with sound minds who are locked in their bodies or otherwise not physically able to take the drugs themselves. Shouldn't they get actual help from somebody? And what if they're not of sound mind, but wrote a living will while they were - shouldn't that be honored?
I'd like to hear more about the supposed problems with euthanasia in Holland - were people really put to death who didn't want to be? That's the only safeguard we need, making sure nobody is killed who doesn't want to be. People who want to die, for whatever reason, should be allowed to.
Just read up on the supposed "problems" with Dutch euthanasia - "euthanasia without specific request" Ie the doctor actively kills the patient without the patient requesting it. Is that really any worse than letting them starve to death as we do? I doubt there are people being killed while kicking and screaming that they don't want to be.
I never said yea or nea...
I also understant what Dr. Lowe is saying
What I'm saying is that if it got approval in Canada (not that I think it would). The lines would be filled with people not of right mind and body. Which means the people it was ment for will not get it as it would take longer than they have.
As to "the hangnail" group If they really want to commit suicide I doubt that there is anything I can do to stop them. I doubt any of them care one way or the other what I think about it
