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There should be no gatekeepers to control what you can do with yourself. No doctors nor AIs nor governments have that right. I should be able to buy a humane me
by eikenberry 5y ago
There should be no gatekeepers to control what you can do with yourself. No doctors nor AIs nor governments have that right. I should be able to buy a humane means of death with no questions asked whenever I want. I am the only person who has the right to determine if/when I die, it is not their call. It makes me so mad that you have to break the law to try to find a humane way to commit suicide and that so many people resort to terribly unpleasant means. And while I'm glad to see progress from things like this and mad dog brewing in AU, it isn't enough.
- DanBC 5y agoYou have a right to life. You don't yet have a right to death. Given that, it's understandable that there are barriers in place for people who temporarily think they want to die.
- eikenberry 5y agoMy point is that you do have a right to death. You could understand it in terms of the right to life... that it is your right to control. If you don't have the right to die do you really have control of your life and the right to it. IMO the right to life requires a right to die.
- DanBC 5y agoCan you show me where this right to death is listed? Because I can show you right to life in a bunch of international human rights documents, and from there in a bunch of law in different countries. Very few countries give people a right to death.
- eikenberry 5y agoAs I put it, I really think it is implicit in the right to life. The right to life means you should have the control over your life/death. You don't really have a right to life if you don't control the most basic part of that, life itself.
- baobabKoodaa 5y agoYou don't have the right to dictate what people can and can't do with their own bodies. Furthermore, you should accept the fact that some people hold opinions different than yours and it's not always "temporary", yes, differing opinions actually do exist. There's many documented cases of people consistently wanting to die over a long period of time, you deny these people exist?
- DanBC 5y ago> You don't have the right to dictate what people can and can't do with their own bodies This comment is legally incoherent.
- baobabKoodaa 5y ago> This comment is legally incoherent. You're gonna have to be more specific than that.
- dillondoyle 5y agoI agree for ill and end of life. But I think it's more complicated for otherwise healthy people temporarily passing through a mental illness crisis or untreated depression. Though there is a distinction here in it's a government providing the means. Anyone can figure out a means themselves.