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ORIGINAL: puella

Hrm... well good. He shouldn't have been in prison to begin with.

As a person who pretty much grew up watching her mother die a slow and painful death due to cancer, I think there does come a time where euthanasia is the right choice. In my family's case our own doctor was so upset about the state my mother had degenerated into that he could not treat her without weeping. There was nothing right about keeping her in a state of semi-conscious continual torture... but the law is the law.

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ORIGINAL: puella

Hrm... well good.  He shouldn't have been in prison to begin with.

As a person who pretty much grew up watching her mother die a slow and painful death due to cancer, I think there does come a time where euthanasia is the right choice.  In my family's case our own doctor was so upset about the state my mother had degenerated into that he could not treat her without weeping.   There was nothing right about keeping her in a state of semi-conscious continual torture... but the law is the law.

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ORIGINAL: lockedaway

Of course he should have been sent to prison, he was breaking the law. Let's be fair, assisted suicide happens a great deal. Hospice "may" administer a lethal dose or just keep someone on pain medicine until they are non-compus mentus. I think most people are in favor of that. Euthanising someone who is terminal, alert, not in pain but simply wants to control the way they exit the world is another story altogether. When you codify such behavior you create a slippery slope where euthanasia gets applied to more and more situations. You don't need a guy like Kevorkian. You have Hospice and you have books like "Final Exit" and you have your private personal physician, perhaps. I'm sorry about your mother and I understand, first hand, what you went through.

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ORIGINAL: lockedaway

Shoot yourself.

No no, I mean, you can kill yourself. Are you arguing for parapalegics going to clinics and being put down like lame horses?

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Shoot yourself. 

No no, I mean, you can kill yourself.  Are you arguing for parapalegics going to clinics and being put down like lame horses?  You failed to address the certainty of how a law like what you are advocating would be prostituted and twisted.  For example, abortion under Roe v. Wade becoming partial birth abortions, etc.  

Also, you are wrong about not being free to kill yourself.  I have never heard of anyone who has killed themself being prosecuted.  The issue is that you can't hire someone else to take a hit out on you.  So, yes, it is very much illegal for the service provider.