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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Well, that's not what I am talking about at all. I am talking mainly about people with terminal illnesses and in a lot of pain. One would have to be pretty uncaring to tell them they have to continue to suffer until the bitter end because you have 'principles' or the right not to be inconvenienced.
I clarified earlier on that euthanasia will have to be properly regulated. I don't think that a person who is feeling tired would exactly qualify under a properly regulated regime, do you?
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Unfortunately or fortunately depending on your view what you or I for that matter say doesn't become legislation, I'm sure the Dutch, Belgium and Swiss thought through their legislation and came up with something they thought would be of a great help to their society but I'm also sure they didn't expect the blind and tired I mentioned earlier to take advantage of their new laws but they did all the same and now they're dead.
I've given some examples of people earlier in the thread who have locked in syndrome and the like, they are truly tragic stories and you can't help but feel sympathy for them and I can't argue that for them this is the best option but at the same time you can't ignore what's gone on in other countries and how the rules have been manipulated or flouted nor can you ignore what we are like as a society in this country, I agree with the police chief who said if we had these laws here it'd become a way of removing a burden or gaining a legacy