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Parents might be talked into it by children who are eager to inherit their assets. When someone pointed this out to me it made me reconsider.
by cjdell 6y ago
Parents might be talked into it by children who are eager to inherit their assets. When someone pointed this out to me it made me reconsider.
- tpush 6y agoI mean, that can already happen, no? What difference does it make being able to commit legal suicide instead of 'illegal' suicide by downing some pills?
- cjdell 6y agoI guess because one is technically murder and you'd have to do it yourself, whereas the other you can get someone else to do it and you'd get away scott free and with less guilt.
- tpush 6y agoWhy wouldn't both be murder and the guilt just the same?
- JetAlone 6y agoThey are both murder, but I think he's talking about legal guilt. If the assisted suicide you deniably talked your predecessor into was legal, you are legally guilty of no crime.
- lucb1e 6y agoAs someone who moved to Germany, I feel like I understand this better now. Many people here a real stickler for rules even when they make absolutely no sense at all. Many seem to actually care whether a law was broken before they care to consider whether the thing itself is good regardless of legal status. Avoiding the feeling of legal guilt is probably a thing here more than I thought it could be.
- alexashka 6y agoThe only points this makes me reconsider is the legal right to murder your own children and having criteria for who gets to have children in the first place.
- mariusor 6y agoThat's why the decision to allow assisted suicide is taken by two separate medical professionals following two requests by a person in pain. I think it's safe to assume that said medics (who swore a hypocratic oath, no less) will not just hand those over to whomever asks.