CaptainH13 said:

taking your own life is a privilege....if you not able...guess you don't have that privilege,huh?....



that you better start pullin' out your old Mcgiver episodes...

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i8an8thsGF said:

I have to write a persuasive essay for English composition and i decided to write it on assisted suicide. I think it should be legal for people who are terminally ill. Just wanted to see what some peoples views may be about assisted suicide.

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Drion's pill
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Drion's pill is a fictitious suicide pill. It was proposed by Huib Drion, a former Dutch Supreme Court judge and professor of civil law. He argued that people aged 75 or over, living alone, should have the choice of being provided by a doctor with the means to end their lives at a time and in a manner that was acceptable to them. It would be distributed to those who might need it - naturally, with great wisdom and great care and under strict safeguards.
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So far this has been only discussed as a theoretical proposition. No such pill exists in the Netherlands.

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My mother died by euthanasia which I had to authorize

Euthanasia is harsh, but it is merciful in many cases, and to be preferred to letting a condition torture you to death. Because that is what often happens. A friend of my parents died because massive tumor growth in his lungs slowly asphyxiated him over the course of weeks. He chose to do this, but people should not be forced to suffer like that without any hope of recovery.

If he had blown his brain out, I'd be in peace with that decision. If he had asked me to "get his gun" (if he had one) I'd take it to the hospital for him and oversee that he did it right. In the USA, its incomprehensible how serial killers can get captial punishment, but good people are witheld from choosing a dignified death.

Sometimes the only cure for a disease is a merciful death, and that is why doctors should be able to administer it, on patient's orders, when the situation calls for it.