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The article is clearly opposed to laws that prohibit assisted suicide. I tended to agree with this position, but in a conversation recently someone made a poin
by adriand 17y ago
The article is clearly opposed to laws that prohibit assisted suicide. I tended to agree with this position, but in a conversation recently someone made a point that I had not considered previously, which I'll repeat here.
When assisted suicide is legal, it becomes institutionalized and ends up becoming the duty of professionals. The impact on these people is worth considering. Each day they work, they are responsible for ending the life of numerous people. This has profound effects on people that are not necessarily positive.
- GavinB 17y agoIn the case of cryonically freezing someone, the professional believes that they are giving the person a chance to be revived, not killing them. Even if the point is valid in the broader arena, in the case of cryonics it doesn't hold.
- delackner 17y agoWhat exactly is the argument you are making? Smoking is legal and I don't remember the last time someone forced me to inhale. The flu vaccine is legal, and last I checked you had to go to a hospital and demand it, they don't just stick you with it automatically every winter.
- randallsquared 17y agoThat has nothing to do with the argument he's making. He's saying that the mental health effects on practitioners in the field should be considered.
- inklesspen 17y agoHow about the mental health effects on the soon-to-be-deceased? Plenty of people want to be able to control the timing of their death to preserve whatever dignity they can; witness Terry Pratchett's statement on the matter, for instance.