I fully support assisted suicide. The problem is how do you stop selfish relatives from encouraging someone to pull their own plug? How do you guarantee that the choice is made by free will?
There was a wonderful discussion on hospices that made the point of the financial pressures placed on patients, and how assisted suicide could become affected by that pressure.
So I just don’t know where to come down on the issue. I want sane, rational people to have the choice. I don’t want people to feel it’s the desperate alternative. And I don’t know how to protect those people from inappropriate pressure.
Do you believe in God or not? Don’t know if you noticed, but this forum openly declares itself to be pro-God. God is not in any way, shape or form on the side of assisted suicide.
I have no idea why so many insist on forcing someone to live...usually its the families...they want the IV and the tube feedings and don't mind seeing their loved ones with wrist restraints on so they don't pull things out....
death is very easy, and very naturally, and we should let nature take its course....
but assisted someone?.....not a good idea....
Literally, assisted suicide is murder. Suicide means YOU kill YOURSELF. You don’t involve anyone else.