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Originally Posted by flamesfever
The fact that Quebec is one of the first provinces to get involved is telling me it is probably not the way to go.
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It's telling me that Quebec isn't totally crazy after all.
I'm a huge supporter of Euthanasia and wish we afforded the same options to people that we do our dogs and cats. My mother spent the final 15 years of her nursing career working in a hospice helping people through the final stage of their life, and her opinions have certainly worn off on me. We've/she's also taken my Aunt with lung cancer and my Grandmother into her home to make the final months/years more comfortable. Being that close to the dying process (I was 13 when my Aunt lived with us) was certainly an interesting experience.
There are certainly extreme complexities with allowing doctor-assisted suicide, but there's complexities with our current system as well. Doctors would certainly have to be afforded the option to not perform the procedure should they not feel comfortable with it.
The article makes some points that I don't totally understand, perhaps I misunderstood the criteria of the bill or perhaps the article had to boil down some of the explanation. He claimed that a violinist that loses his arm could claim that his pain is irreparable, so that would place him in the category of people able to go through with it. As I understood the criteria, it wouldn't.