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Originally Posted by Dion
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?
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No doctor will be forced against their will, if they have objections there should be a strict set of rules and a committee to go over these objections.
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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?
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Safeguards like you are of course mentally sound that you decide, no one can ever force you, if you want put in your will conditions where if your no longer mentally sound that you wish or do not wish for conditions that would come up. Again there is lots of ways to go about this, ideally strict rules and a committee to go over a case.
I just feel like people are bringing up scenarios that are highly unlikely and things like sad teenagers, back problems, etc.. Akin to the anti gay marriage people suggesting we marry our pets.
We need to move forward and make this happen, our humanist group in Iceland is working on bringing this to the forefront in Iceland, the will is there here but I see some ludicrous objections here as well for those against it, mostly its unfounded as there is an easy way to go about setting clear cut guildelines and rules as to how to go about all this.
We have a few experts working on drafting such recommendations on how to proceed that includes a top doctor at our main hospital, lawyers, psychiatrists, etc.. I'll share what we come up with when the time comes, our goal is to have a paper out on this by end of summer next year at the latest.