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Morality of suicide is a completely different discussion. Euthanasia (in practice) comes down to whether government-licensed doctors should get to decide whose
by auganov 6y ago
Morality of suicide is a completely different discussion. Euthanasia (in practice) comes down to whether government-licensed doctors should get to decide whose lives are worthy of living. Some people will be approved, some won't.
The implications are pretty troubling to me personally. Someone gets diagnosed with a sketchy mental condition, which in turn causes them to contemplate death, and then the very same doctors approve their euthanasia.
If I tell anybody to kill themselves I will rightfully get criminally charged. Someone approving an euthanasia is pretty close. Sure, they may want it, but so will people who get denied, one cannot say the act of approving is completely meaningless.
- soco 6y agoI don't know much about real world cases related to sketchy mental conditions. I know cases about people terminally ill, put in palliative care, which simply cannot go on with the pains without any hope for ever getting better. These are the main (or sole, dare to say) consumers of assisted suicide, at least in Switzerland.
- auganov 6y agoEuthanasia over psychiatric conditions is already a very real thing in Belgium [0] (and the Netherlands I believe). Swiss seems to be more conservative in approvals all across the board but mental isn't off the table either [1]. [0] https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/7/e007454 https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/7/e007454 [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6794705/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6794705/