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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
When did I suggest that "we" (although I don't know who this we is) have the right to murder people. I am saying that they (as in the person) should have the right to end their life on their terms.
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Doctors and those who choose to assist someone in comitting suicide.
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The slippery slope argument is one of the worst arguments that people can make by the way, it doesn't mean anything and it is always followed up with a fear mongering statement which isn't based in reality at all.
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You can't say it won't happen. We already have a form of it in the States where Health Insurance compaines get to decide who gets treatment and who doesn't. People dying because they can't get the treatment they need. Families could decide that caring for loved one is too much of a burden to them and assisted suicide is the best way to go.
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I do think that a degenerative brain disease is different by the way relative to cancer -with exceptions of course with cancer the person is still themselves, in an Alzheimer's patient, they aren't themselves anymore, they can become sexually aggressive people who don't recognize their own family members. They really don't exist anymore as the people they were, they are often shells of themselves. If someone is able to put into writing what they want done in X, Y, and Z situations when they are of sound mind that would be an optimal solution in my opinion.
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No one of sound mind wants to comitt suicide and end thier life early.