BartSimpson BartSimpson:
All I can say is that any doctor who suicides someone I care about and then steals their organs will themselves become available for organ donation.
I'm in favour of euthanasia. There is no way in hell that anyone who's suffering intolerable pain should have to continue to live if there's no relief in sight or possible.
Besides Bart, if "you people" down south had legalized euthanasia under the Dutch model:
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Unlike in most other jurisdictions where medically facilitated deaths are legal, the euthanasia law in the Netherlands has no requirement that a patient be close to death. The law’s directives are few and broadly drawn. Aside from obtaining formal consent—a patient’s request must be “informed” and “voluntary and well considered”—the doctor must be “satisfied” that two conditions are met: The patient has “unbearable suffering, without prospect of improvement,” and there is “no reasonable alternative” to address it. The doctor must use the euthanasia medications properly, and she must consult an independent physician—though she is not bound by this outside consultant’s opinion. Indeed, as long as the patient is at least 16, no other person’s consent except the patient’s is mandatory. (Parents of 16- and 17-year-olds are involved in the discussion, but their permission is not required. Patients as young as 12 can seek euthanasia with parental consent. In about 10 cases since 2002, children ages 12 to 17 have received euthanasia; as far as I know, all were for physical illnesses.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... em/591262/before the last election you'd be looking at a lot less anti Trump protesters and be missing a large portion of the Democratic Party some of whom vocally expressed that they'd refuse to live under "The Orange Man Bad" gov't prior to the election.
