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Originally Posted by Xaccers
What exactly is your impression of what happens at Dignitas?
They wheel you in, hand a syringe full of barbituates to your loved one and say "Ve vill just turn around und look zee ozer vay" ?
Or do you mean they're in the hotel room after getting back from Dignitas, and your loved one who took you there picks up the lamp and whacks you over the head with it until you're dead, then one would think that the local police would treat it as a murder. Your loved one saying "but he changed his mind so he beat himself to death with the lamp" really isn't going to wash is it?
As for your linked articles, while in some cases spina bifida has been treated surgically, the cases mentioned had serious spina bifida, and other non-treatable terminal conditions.
The guardian article is reporting on someone's opinion.
To allow someone who cannot make the decision for themselves die slowly in pain no matter if their loved ones say they should die quickly and painlessly is unethical to me.
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the stuff i have read and what i have seen seems to indicate that the person dieing and those helping are left alone to do what is to be done so there is room to say that the person is give cart blanche to decide as once aone there is no come back plus once given the person is free to put pressure on the other one to carry it through
if you have other info point me to it i read anything me
as to the other articles they are more to show the mission creep that happens once you allow this.
as to the in pain its subjective plus ( i cant find the other article at the mo ) the same argument was being put for people in a vegetative state and even mentally impaired where they had had a chance to give consent before hand doctors were wanting to be allowed to assume they would give consent
once on that road it will be almost impossible to stop
and for the life of me ( pun intended even if its a bed one
) i cant see the problem with the law as it is as long as you sort your finances properly
and there are many ways to end your life peacefully with out going to Switzerland or getting your relatives in trouble already just takes a bit of planning