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Assisted Dying
It's in the news again:-
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There are often campaigns for freedom of one thing or another, what do you think about the freedom to end it all when you've had enough of it?
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Every time this comes up I say the same thing. The cases cited are valid and they should be allowed. The problem is that the law will inevitably get misused. Pretty soon the right to die becomes the obligation to die. Then you’ll get unscrupulous relatives marching granny up to the death factory to nick her house. Framing a law that work for this is very difficult.
In Hesse's Steppenwolf there is a treatise on suicide. He posit's that there are people who would never commit suicide & those who firmly believe that suicide is their most likely demise when life becomes intolerable.
No one should be condemned to an awful (and possibly ineffective) suicide or painful and unnecessarily prolonged suffering because the law prohibits an easier and more peaceful end.
