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> Whether you believe a person has a "right" to choose to die or not, people are fully capable of making the choice, and whether you believe they have to right
by spritefs 4y ago
> Whether you believe a person has a "right" to choose to die or not, people are fully capable of making the choice, and whether you believe they have to right to or not, people are going to do it.
It's one thing to be able to do something, it's another thing to inform the person of the ability to do something and put pressure on them like this (a real conversion in Canada between a patient and hospital administrator):
> “Roger, this is not my show,” the ethicist responded. “My piece of this was to talk to you, (to see) if you had an interest in assisted dying.”
And also jumping off buildings or in front of cars is a relatively uncommon way of committing suicide
- etchalon 4y agoWe can regulate the behaviors of doctors and staff in hospital to ensure they aren't pressuring people to make the choice due to costs. We can fire people who do so. Anecdotal tales of incompetence do not justify the removal of a person's basic right of self.