or even if they do have family,
or aren't necessarily elderly. What happens when it becomes completely socially acceptable to ask your doctor to end it all when you've got nothing more to live for? Is that the sort of world we want?
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 22 Aug 2012, 14:56,
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yep
suicide rescues would be a thing of the past.
(may catch them for organ harvesting)
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it would cut our pensions burden,
as well as every other sort of benefit, being disabled or otherwise unemployable being "undignified".
The baby boom generation is just coming into pensionable age, as well as the economic crisis with all its austerity measures, the timing of the sudden interest in the euthanasia issue concerns me.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 22 Aug 2012, 15:02,
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Nope.
There's no tension between legalised assisted dying and suicide rescue - and the organ harvesting canard is utterly baseless.
(On this note, incidentally, the law in Belgium allows euthanasia, but not assisted suicide: that is, there are circumstances in which it's legal to kill someone, but not to provide the means for them to kill themselves. This is because they have a good samaritan law - and to provide the means to commit suicide is incompatible with the duty to attempt to rescue someone whose life is in danger. I think. That's how someone explained it to me. It's odd, I'll admit.)
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 22 Aug 2012, 15:03,
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actually that doesn't sound so odd to me,
even if it's the opposite end of the slippery wedge we are currently trying to grasp by the horns at the moment.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 22 Aug 2012, 15:06,
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Annoyingly I have to go to a meeting
but I would say that yes that is the world I want. Not the world where vulnerable people are taken advantage of, but one where you can take your life in as controlled (I hope that's not too robotic a word: I mean it emotionally as well as physically) a fashion as possible, after exhausting all other options.
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Hol[]y - WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, Wed 22 Aug 2012, 14:59,
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