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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Euthanasia should only be considered when someone is terminal or has a condition that drastically reduces quality of life to near zero that's it. Any system that allows tired people and blind people to make use of euthanasia is broken and unfit for purpose I'm not sure how anyone could think we would implement a system that lax. Make it a requirement that three doctors need to agree with any patients request for a termination of life hell have one be a psychiatrist who'd be able to better gauge bad reasoning on the part of the patient. It is not impossible to create a system that could work as intended and allow people a dignified end to their lives.
Life is life is not a good enough argument to oppose a euthanasia system life without quality of life is not worth it and keeps people in limbo sometimes for years along with their family dragging out the suffering and damage that can be caused.
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I believe the three doctor system is used in Holland, it might not be but think it is, here's a case from there, it's tragic and I can only hope her abusers suffer horribly for this, worryingly though a 2nd opinion might mean she'd still be alive and improving
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...uncurable.html
I've never argued life is life btw, quite the opposite, some of the examples I've highlighted in this thread a're truely heart breaking but for everyone of them there's another from someone relatively healthy and they're not always from abroad either, there was a nasty tale from this country where a young woman abused the living will system to kill herself whilst medical staff could do nothing but watch.
We haven't done enough with improving palliative care to even consider this yet imo and that will be something good that comes out of this whole debate, it can't help but improve palliative care no matter what road we eventually go down.