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Let me pose a question to you. (Or perhaps a rephrasing of your own) Should we allow people to end their own lives? And at the point that we do, would we disa
by existencebox 10y ago
Let me pose a question to you. (Or perhaps a rephrasing of your own) Should we allow people to end their own lives?
And at the point that we do, would we disallow them from also selling their organs?
I'll openly admit I err on the side of allowing one full control over their body; as someone staring down the barrel of dementia/Alzheimer, I selfishly want that choice when the time comes.
- tptacek 10y agoAre you asking because you want to know what I personally think? Remember, I'm just trying to get a coherent principle out of an angry objection. I think we should allow assisted suicide but regulate it carefully. I do not think we should sell the organs of people who end their lives this way (not that there's likely to be a market for those organs).
- existencebox 10y agoWas primarily curious to what the argument would be from someone taking the other side of this debate; if you think your personal opinion would build on that I'd naturally also be curious. Regarding your second point on selling organs, for me it would heavily depend on our medical understanding of the transmission of whatever the critical condition was. If there is good science that e.g. Alzheimer patients can still be kidney donors, I'd think it'd be both impractical and unjust not to release those organs as the owner sees fit.