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Should assisted suicide be legal? (Patreon)

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2024-10-18 15:39:00
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2024-10-18 15:49:24
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This is accidentally timely, because Parliament is debating this very question.

Look out for more Q217s coming very soon. I shall charge for only one of them.

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Is assisted suicide murder?

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Iain Bailey

Yes, it should be made legal

Russell Parker

Answer to Q45... Would I give them poison? No. Would I cover their head with a bag and fill it with Nitrogen? Absolutely.

Russell Parker

IMHO we tend to confuse the value between Quality of Life and Quantity of Life.

Russell Parker

As a rancher I have had to euthanize injured or very old animals... cried every time... but by far the worst situation was early on before we owned a pistol, and it took me almost three hours to find someone to help me put a terminally injured baby goat out of its misery. The only saving grace was it was so deeply in shock not to be seemingly aware of the injury. Darn it! I am tearing up now just at the memory of little Buttercup.

Julian Corbett

If you keep any animal, no matter what it is, in agonising pain for days, weeks, months, even years, then you are guilty of the most heinous crime of cruelty and the law punishes you for causing unnecessary suffering of an animal. However we are socially and legally enforced to prolong the endless suffering of a person for as long as we can, making how ever long they have left, an agonising torment every single minute of every day until they finally expire. But this is not seen as cruel, paradoxically. If all the necessary safeguards can be met to prevent coersion, then legally someone should be allowed to die, if that is their wish, or the considered opinion of several medical staff. There have been cases of medical staff "easing" a patients passing by giving them overdoses of painkiller, but if they are discovered, they risk prosecution for (at the very least) manslaughter.

Martien van den Berg

I am Dutch. In my country it is legal to assist someone in a suicide if you are a doctor. The rules are very strict which leads to limited possibilities and most doctors want nothing to do with it, they became doctors to help people, not to kill them. However, there is a group of people here (not doctors) who think that someone should decide this for themselves and they sell a pill that is fatal to anyone who asks for it. Some time ago there was a nurse who helped an elderly (rich) couple who died within a year. She turned out to be the only heir, there were adult children of the couple and they had no quarrel with their parents. When the police started an investigation the nurse committed suicide. After her death the investigation was stopped because there was no suspect anymore. The nurse left everything to her own daughter, because the investigation was stopped and therefore no murder was proven everyone now has a problem. About my position on assisted suicide, earlier this year my dog ​​was diagnosed with leukaemia that could not be cured. I had him put to sleep together with the vet. I still have tears in my eyes. I cannot imagine ever having to do this to a loved one.

Luc Drouin

I am Canadian, 64 yo, and Canada has legalised euthanasia (which we call in Québec “Aide médicale à mourir”) since 2016. It is made available to sick people (who have ask for it themselves, not their family members or friends) suffering pain or debilitation leading to death for which no reasonable medical prospect of improvement is available. It is quite heavily procedural to administer in order to avoid the trivialization of the recourse and possible excesses. There were initially debates about the subject in Canada, which is normal given that it is asking physicians to administer death to patients, but today it is pretty much settled. The procedure is regularly asked for and administered to (four injections to induce coma, reduce pain and bring death (by asphyxiation I believe)). My cousin who had Lou Gehrig’s disease and who was not anymore able to hold his head straight in bed got it, in the presence of his close family members. It was not a happy moment, even less a celebration of life by death; it was done to alleviate suffering to my cousin, incidentally an athlete and a major in the Canadian Armed Forces. A new debate is now going on in Canada about opening the procedure to sick people suffering pain or debilitation that is not necessarily leading to death, and to those suffering psychological arm. The amendments, if they pass, won't be put into law before one to two years. Finally, I vouch that Canadians are not heartless bastards rejoicing in ending the existence of sick people, if any person were to have this idea.

Urst_

It's illegal specifically to keep the police or bystanders from getting into trouble for stopping someone from killing themselves. Much like J-Walking is illegal to protect motorists from getting into trouble because some pedestrian didn't look both ways and came around a blind corner where you wouldn't have time to stop. It should remain illegal. Additionally, if murder is illegal then assisted suicide must be illegal because that's murder.