Euthanasia

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droid

Guest
milkandhoney said:
in what way does the medical "industry" benefit from prolonging the lives of those close to death?

By providing medical care and pharmecuticals in exchange for large amounts of money, usually paid for by medical insurance.

The elderly, incapacitated and /or seriously ill are the most costly to care for and also the least profitable clients for insurance companies - so they are probably the one sector of the medical industry who would support Euthanasia purely for business reasons.
 

wonk_vitesse

radio eros
i assume that any legislation regarding voluntary euthansia will (should)be like getting Housing Benefit in Lambeth.......difficult. It'll be a tricky process that will put off all but the most determined.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Are you saying that it will be a long process to get the legislation passed or that once it is it will be difficult to get authorisation within that legislation?
If the latter it seems a bit unfair to require that people near death and desperate to die face a gruelling struggle to get the necessary certificates although I can see that it ought to act as some kind of safeguard.
 

misterpc

Member
debatable ethics

So here's a question: what if somebody isn't in great physical agony, but immense mental distress? Does their right to die still hold, or is the argument that their mental distress is clouding their judgement? Since the assumption appears to be that suicidal tendencies are at root insane, then by definition anybody who wants to die is insane. Yet I think one of the reasons that euthanasia raises so many questions (and so many hackles) is because there's an unspoken concern that, if euthanasia were made both easy and simple, we would shortly after be witnesses to suicide on a scale never seen before as thousands of people take the opportunity to end lives which they consider intolerable.
 
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droid

Guest
misterpc said:
Yet I think one of the reasons that euthanasia raises so many questions (and so many hackles) is because there's an unspoken concern that, if euthanasia were made both easy and simple, we would shortly after be witnesses to suicide on a scale never seen before as thousands of people take the opportunity to end lives which they consider intolerable.

Its already happening:

Japan has been stricken by an epidemic of suicides cutting across all social strata and age groups, according to recently released statistics for 2003. Every day nearly 100 people take their own lives, at a rate of almost one every 15 minutes. And the long economic slump is a factor. Despite recent signs of economic recovery, the good news hasn't yet touched the lives of those who leap off buildings, hurl themselves in front of trains, apparently in droves, or hang themselves.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/FG28Dh01.html

:eek:
 

luka

Well-known member
New Zealand is having a referendum. Yyaldrin said something interesting. In Holland as soon as people were given the option/right they uniformly chose to exercise it as soon as they became eligible
 

luka

Well-known member
Once people are given the option of an easy exit they take it without fail. No one stays unless they have to.
 

version

Well-known member
New Zealand is having a referendum.
Apparently it passed, but recreational marijuana didn't.
I imagine it's only a matter of time before the right start spreading conspiracy theories about Arden. She's a progressive, she's in favour of gun control and now she's allowing euthanasia. There's bound to be someone who tries to spin it as "The left in NZ are taking away people's guns so they can euthanise them! Wake up!".
 

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
New Zealand is having a referendum. Yyaldrin said something interesting. In Holland as soon as people were given the option/right they uniformly chose to exercise it as soon as they became eligible

this is an interesting read about the subject:
 
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linee

Guest
No doubt there will one day be a blue plaque installed to mark the occasion.
so that's what those canons in Albert Park are commemorating

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vimothy

yurp
everyone imagines that the ppl who take advantage of it will be ppl who really need it, but why would that be the only case? what if ppl also choose to do so bc for eg they're depressed?
 
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