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If there is no effective legal or socially-accepted means to express one's interest in euthanasia, receive help and consultation about that interest, and demons
by baddox 6y ago
If there is no effective legal or socially-accepted means to express one's interest in euthanasia, receive help and consultation about that interest, and demonstrate one's level-headedness, then is there any reliable way to know whether a particular suicide was a rash decision?
- DoreenMichele 6y agoEven when it is legal, there is no reliable way to know for certain if it's really the right choice. This is one of the reasons people object to right to die laws. When Dr. Kevorkian was helping people die in the US, I read an article that indicated that most of his patients were basically middle-aged women who lacked adequate social support rather than people whose conditions were genuinely so terrible that death made sense. If they had been middle-aged men, the odds were good that a wife or female relative would have been taking care of them. Instead, they felt they were an unwanted burden to their family. But here is a story about a woman with a genetic disorder who starved herself to death and wanted her story told to advocate for right to die laws in Canada: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/kims-choice-how-one-family-confronts-a-genetic-time-bomb/article19657030/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/heal... So I think it is possible to clearly signal that you are rational and serious and it is planned, etc. even in cases where it isn't legal.