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Originally Posted by GGG
Of Boers complaints it becoming the default mode of death for cancer pairients shouldnt be a concern. The big risks I see is the increase in patients with psychiatric conditions and dimentia and the doctors reporting pressure coming from relatives.
The risk with assisted suicide is that instead of putting grandma, when she gets altzimers, in a home you take her to the glue factory. You need strict guidelines to prevent this from hapoening that work. So Holland should be looked at a guide to determine how to prevent these things.
My general rule would be if you dont have a living will then no assisted suicide for dimentia or any other psychiatric condition.
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The bolded is callous - .1% of the population thinks like that. People delay putting down their pets for six months because they can't handle it, they aren't 'sending grandma to the glue factory'.
I'll agree, you can't kill someone who hasn't requested it in a living will. I would guess that when the practice becomes legal, everyone who's been to a nursing home and thinks it seems like a special kind of Hell will be signing up for the early Alzheimer's exit plan.
Both my grandparents have dementia/Alzheimer's. They live in the same facility in Sherwood Park, and see each other for six hours a day. They're safe, they seem as happy as their situation would allow, but the people that I knew growing up are gone. So it's fair to say I'm certainly biased in one direction, but certainly would never advocate putting them down.
My grandparents never wrote wills. They seemed to think it was a bad omen. But if they'd written it in that they wished for assistance ending their lives when the people they were before vanished, I'd be on their side.
As human beings, we deserve this option.