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by throwaway324324 10y ago
Interestingly, family pressure to euthanize is a major practical concern for countries with euthanasia. The point is actually that there is no distinction between taking your life own or someone else's. If consent is our metric, duelin
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
We usually don't want them to do anything about it - this is why we have suicide prevention. The difference with euthanasia is that you personally agree that certain lives really are "not worth living", and for practical pu
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
Suffocating while "semi-vegetative" is assumed to be painless, much like we assume euthanasia to be painless. In any case, I'm sorry about your mother. There's not much I can say about your stepfather, except that you pr
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
Thanks - yeah, I agree, we need better palliative care, better social support in general. I understand your perspective, but I do have trouble following it through - I need to be able to say "at this point, a life loses that value, and
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
My answer actually didn't mention anything about watching over you to ensure that you don't inject lethal poison. I was talking about why I personally would not kill myself or ask anyone else to. But yes, if I think it's wron
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
Because I would be participating in killing a living human. It's our duty to avoid intentionally doing that, even if it really hurts. Technically it's the same reason that I don't want someone to euthanize me right now. The v
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
If collective survival was the driving influence, we would have been in favor of suicide for people who were a "burden", like cancer patients. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2160/did-eskimo
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
What are the downvotes for? The questions aren't rhetorical, if that's the issue - I really do want to know what distinction people see between this and suicide, which periodically comes up as a topic here, and people are so much
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
Your stepfather apparently violated your mother's directive based on the desperate belief that his spouse could recover, and she did not. This is absolutely tragic. Then your stepfather presumably refused kill his spouse (due to hope,
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
Some of my family members have died to suicide. One violently after many people could not restrain them. One very much planned, very much like Pieter. Both found reasons to end their suffering, to take authoritative control over their own d
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
I think we at least agree on suicide. Suicide is a desperate act: we must feel deep sympathy for its victims and contempt for its promotion. But what you plan to undertake - euthanasia - is not suicide, but just something that reduces pain,
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
No, that's not euthanasia. On that account, sedation without death would count. Euthanasia is when you ask (or in some cases, force, against their conscience) someone to kill you. Compare with "suicide by cop". We are going t
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
To disagree is to try to invalidate contrasting beliefs. They aren't saying "people who commit suicide are revolting", nor "I wish we never had to make tough choices that tested our moral constitution" (like you sug
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
The article brought up Euthanasia in big letters and promoted it, and many comments here talk about it favorably; it's on-topic. I disagree, and gave reasons. Disagreement is not off-topic, and it's not disrespectful. If I was dyi
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
Thanks for your response. If I'm reading you right, you seem to be saying for (1) "suicide is better than living like that" - well... yeah, but isn't that always the motive, what's the difference now? And for (2) &q
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
I don't think they're talking about having your kids 3d print a clone of you using your dna, but about having medical info available in case your cancer is hereditary. You seem to be into giving your body to science, so it's
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
Why the downvotes?
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
So you're essentially hoping that these people, who did not give explicit consent, actually (and perhaps secretly) did want to be killed? My hope is that where paperwork did go through, no person was uncertain or regretted their life-a
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
For those wondering what the typical regulations consist of, I found the following article doing a quick google search: >> In all jurisdictions, the request for euthanasia or pas has to be voluntary, well-considered, informed, and per
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by throwaway324324 10y ago
It seems against protocol to argue with a dying man, but refraining also seems disrespectful to Pieter. I always open the comment section hoping that someone will disagree with the article in a thoughtful way; perhaps it's my turn, sin