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I'd like to think he going after depression that leads to suicide. Is euthanasia really suicide?

• pyre 13y ago
  When it's at the behest of the 'victim' it's usually referred to as assisted-suicide.
  • amerika_blog 13y ago
    I think that's convenient terminology but nothing else. Suicide is what occurs when you don't have the option for life. When you have a terminal disease, you've entered the state of being in the end of life. You're just choosing how that endgame plays out. Not everyone has the fortune to die surrounded by the corpses of their enemies.
    • Yourfags 13y ago
      Perhaps you mean it in a different sense, but it's not possible to not have the option for life, you can choose not to experience life, you can say the reasons against it are too much for you, but there's never a time when life is no longer an option.
    • dalore 13y ago
      One could argue that life itself is a terminal illness.
  • Someone 13y ago
    No. Assisted suicide is when someone kills himself with help from somebody else. For example, one could bring someone (who, typically, isn't capable of getting them by himself) a gun or pills. Euthanasia is when someone ends the life of somebody else upon that other person's clear and well-considered request. People will differ in their opinion whether there is a difference with murder here.