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So stop regulating the poisons and allow access via a non doctor path, create a framework around it, trying to give the state control over others bodies has jus

So stop regulating the poisons and allow access via a non doctor path, create a framework around it, trying to give the state control over others bodies has just as many negative externalities. Also please try to keep in mind that the original oath was created during a certain eras morality and philosophical leanings, most doctors these days take severely modified oaths mostly to uphold current profesional practices and ethics.

A_D_E_P_T 2y ago
> So stop regulating the poisons Most of them, like nitrogen and helium gas, are not regulated. Besides, there are a hundred other ways that require no poisons at all. > trying to give the state control over others bodies Yet it's only proponents of euthanasia who demand state sanction. There's something extremely infantile and undignified about this. > most doctors these days take severely modified oaths mostly to uphold current profesional practices and ethics. So much the worse, it seems.
LorenPechtel 2y ago
The heart of the Canadian approach isn't a poison at all. Everything they use is perfectly ordinary stuff you'll find in the hospital. But if you paralyze somebody without taking over breathing for them they'll die. It also requires an IV line. A machine that fed the drugs in sequence wouldn't be complex but the IV line takes some skill.