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Most methods of legal suicide today involve a doctor prescribing a cocktail known to kill a person and in many cases, they’re also administering it. It’s uncomf
by ccakes 3y ago
Most methods of legal suicide today involve a doctor prescribing a cocktail known to kill a person and in many cases, they’re also administering it. It’s uncomfortable for them to effectively murder someone, even knowing that the recipient wishes for this to happen.
The pod here doesn’t need to mean that any psychiatric assessments are foregone, it just takes the doctors finger off the trigger (which is a good thing)
- Pxtl 3y agoIirc even Kevorkian would have the patient execute the final button-press. But either way, I think everybody overestimates the cosmic importance of death to people whose careers are waist deep in it.