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Either your country is handling assisted suicides in a terrible way, or you don't really know what you're talking about, as rude as that makes me sound. Especi

• jtbayly 6y ago
  I'm not talking about laws. I'm talking about the meaning of words. What is it called if a doctor kills somebody out of "mercy," but without explicit consent? An increasing morphine drip that suppresses vital function allowing them to "go peacefully in their sleep" just a bit sooner than would have happened otherwise. This happens all the time. That's called euthanasia, not physician-assisted suicide. And if we can't acknowledge the difference, we are opening ourselves up to allowing what I described because we already allowed "euthanasia," when in fact what we really allowed was PA-suicide. The fact that both are murder in a moral sense doesn't change the necessity of distinguishing between them.
  • DanBC 6y ago
    > What is it called if a doctor kills somebody out of "mercy," but without explicit consent? That's murder.