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It's the attempt to draw a line between "psychiatric" and "real", at least for me. Isn't a psychiatric condition a real condition?
by cool_dude85 4y ago
It's the attempt to draw a line between "psychiatric" and "real", at least for me. Isn't a psychiatric condition a real condition?
- jfengel 4y agoI don't think the OP disagrees that a psychiatric condition is a real condition. I think they're just asserting that they should be properly assessed for that psychiatric condition before euthanasia. That goes for any condition: they want to have at least tried courses of treatment that might fix the problem. This is complicated by the fact that some psychiatric conditions make themselves difficult to treat. They compel the patient to avoid treatment. This is a thorny ethical issue under ordinary circumstances, and even more so when the outcome is terminal. If the patient believes that their condition is debilitating enough to merit ending their life, it is a matter of law that they should at least have to have a doctor's affirmation that it it has not responded to the standard of care. That means treating a psychiatric condition on a par with physiological ones.
- lrvick 4y agoThis is a much better take at what I was trying to convey.