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Originally Posted by Thor
Of course its not black and white, you could start simply with terminally ill or people in extreme pain that cannot be cured, but we need to do this and be grown ups about it, avoiding dealing with this because its difficult and hard to do is no excuse for letting good people suffer and die painful deaths because there are difficult questions and decisions to be made.
Doctors are already doing euthanasia, its well known, lets not hold back on this any longer, its sickening to see us letting our loved ones suffer and die horribly because of people who are healthy feeling uneasy about it.
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It's that slippery slope Boer talks about that scares me. The rules keep changing where now they have a law in the making where GP's who refuse to administer euthanasia "must" refer their patients to a “willing” colleague. What's next? GP's being "forced" to administer euthanasia?
There's a time and a place for euthanasia but I think there needs to be more discussion and better safe guards put in place to protect the vulnerable. It disturbes when relatives are reported to be putting pressure on the doctors to grant these things. Do we progress to a point where the vulnerable don't have a say and friends and family get to decide for us?