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New Zealand lawmakers pass euthanasia bill

• netfl0 7y ago
  I understand this is well intentioned. This also seems pretty dangerous. It puts a lot of trust in the complex bureaucracy that is the medical system.
  • mantap 7y ago
    Is that different to DNRs? It's the job of doctors to make life and death decisions. It's fine to not trust doctors; after experiencing some medical errors I don't either. But often there's no choice other than to trust doctors, if you are on the operating table for instance. Terminal illness is another such case.
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• generalpass 7y ago
  Are they intentionally confusing euthanasia with assisted suicide? These things are completely different.
  • nashashmi 7y ago
    How so?
    • generalpass 7y ago
      > How so? Imagine there is a machine connected to someone and that if a button is pressed, the mahcine will kill the person it is connected to. If the person who it is connected to presses the button, this is suicide. The assisted portion is that someone else has created and connected the machine, but it is still suicide because the machine cannot kill the person without the button being pressed. If someone else presses the button, it is something other than suicide. In the case that the act of killing the person is classified as an "act of mercy", then it could be classified as euthanasia. The article uses these two phrases as if they are interchangeable, but they are conceptually quite different.