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I believe it should be legal. If a person is committed to it for an extended period they should be able to do it. It should not be a quick process obviously giv
by nasmorn 6y ago
I believe it should be legal. If a person is committed to it for an extended period they should be able to do it. It should not be a quick process obviously given that a lot of suicide attempts seem to be calls for help. If you are able bodied you can do it anyways so the current ban only really applies to a minority anyways which seems pretty unfair. Bad enough for them that they are going to have to follow some external process but that seems unavoidable we cannot have people killing others with a signed death wish note.
If death is medically certain and the person is only trying to escape a painful death this would be a hindrance. In this scenario it feels hard to have any due process unless you decide it beforehand. When my father in law died he didn’t want morphine because he was correctly assuming it would kill him. At one point though he was willing to make that trade off though. He would not have wanted this before he was really trying to hang on even through the pain until he wasn’t. In such cases I feel you should have a right to pain management even if it jeopardizes your life. But in this situation where you are deteriorating in the hospital a legal System style procedure would not help you at all.