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I, for one, don't believe in a normal functioning person committing suicide. I think of it as an act of treason, or leaving their post during conflict. However, I believe if someone is terribly ill, and science cannot help them anymore, then I think they have the right to commit suicide. If they are unable, someone needs to help them, i.e. a doctor.
Technocratic_Utilitarian said:Definition: # Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
1. How is it possibly an act of treason? Treason against what? Yourself? You cannot be committing treason by using suicide, because you aren't violating allegiance toward the nation of a king.
Technocratic_Utilitarian said:Why not? If they are harming no one? Should a victimless crime be punished?
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...or when their mental faculties have diminshed to the point where they can't think properly
OdgenTugbyGlub said:I agree with you on terminal illness, but this i disagree with. Handicap is no reason for euthanasia, and by euthanasia I mean murder. You have no way of evaluating whether the person with "diminished mental faculties" (BTW: couldn't that just be stupid people? :smile: ) actually desires to end his/her life or if it's just he ramblings of a mentally unstable person. I'm in full support of a law that allows patients to be euthanized if their prognosis is almost or exactly zero chance of recovery with an evaluation by a qualified psychiatrist (is that how you spell it? I'm kinda tired here) but not one that lets us arbitrarily kill off the "mentally unsound".
Naughty Nurse said:many people who attempt suicide because of medical condition mess it up, because they don't know how to do it right. They end up still alive but in a worse state than before. Would it be more humane to help them die without pain or distress and with dignity?
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