01-02-2023, 06:22 PM
(01-02-2023, 05:44 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote:(01-02-2023, 05:01 PM)harm_less Wrote: Very much a hot potato in terms of legislation. The subject is obviously 'not of sound mind' to make the decision themselves and either declares their intention in advance (but how early is an insurance that they're not already in mental decline?) or a watertight method EPA must be implemented that is 100% free of coercion and/or conflict of interest.
We can make Donor decisions on our drivers licences. We can complete Advance Care Directives (Min of Health website), we can write our wills, appoint executors and give EPOA's ,assign guardians for our children, decide inheritances, determine DNR status - why the hell can we not specify how we want to end our lives?
Because some people have the idea THEY should say how WE should live or die, usually based on their religion...
It is sickeningly selfish of them. Not to mention arrogant, entitled, and authoritarian...
Not to mention extremely cruel in some situations. I sometimes wonder about those people of a religious turn who don't want anyone to have the right to end their life if it becomes unbearably painful, how they might feel if they, at the end of their own lives experience that agony they want everyone to suffer & if they have a change of heart or grin & bear it 'because their god wants it.'
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)