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There are a lot of deeply opinionated and rather thoughtless statements being made here. Please remember that no matter what your position, others have very di
by happytiger 3y ago
There are a lot of deeply opinionated and rather thoughtless statements being made here.
Please remember that no matter what your position, others have very different views on this subject.
That said, I am somewhat of an advocate for people having the option to end their lives in some cases. I have seen first hand someone do it due to extreme medical hardship and it was intense but positive for them.
But there is the evidence that safeguards around these technologies suffer from the “slippery slope” problem:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070710/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070710/
We should be thinking very deeply about whether and how these kinds of technologies have their place in society, and maybe give us some deeper consideration.
- prirun 3y ago> people having the option to end their lives in some cases People nearly always have the option to end their life, unless they are physically incapacitated. It's just a question of how big of a mess it makes.