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Originally posted by Vulcan@Jan 31 2005, 05:56 AM
I had a friend and workmate commit suicide, yeah I found his body. Me and another friend new he was going to do it because he even showed us where he had made his first attempt [with gas much like the man in the story]. It didn't work the first time because he instinctively clawed off the mask. I drove him to the hospital a few times to get Physcriatic[sp] help and hoped he would be admitted, but he told me there were no empty beds. From this experience, I believe that people will instinctively fight to live and at this point in my life, I don't believe in assisted suicide.
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Vulcan I can certainly understand why you might be against Physican assisted suicide but we're talking about two entirely different situations here.
One is when a person wishes to end their life for non-medical reasons such as depression. The other is when a terminal disease causes untreatable pain and is certain to cause death. The two are very different. A physician should be able to distinguish between the two and prevent the former from occuring under such a program.