[freeeee]

You do not need the state to do it

I haven't asserted that it should. The private market should work just fine.

if you would not have the will to do it without the aid of others, perhaps it means you should not do it at all.

Any individual confronted with such a situation may very well be physically incapacitated. Remember, the only people who should be considering such actions are those who simply can't go on because their bodies are so far gone, that the only thing they are capable of is bedridden suffering in the short time they have left before they expire. If they were well enough to go meandering around shopping for the best method, they most likely aren't sick enough to need euthanasia in the first place.

I believe it is cruel and inhuman to compel such a physically incapable individual to attempt what amounts to homemade surgery without anesthesia or competent medical staff and established procedures. Brutal, botched suicides would occur, with further pain and suffering as the result. Ironically, it is pain and suffering the person is literally willing to pay with their life to end.

[outlawcam]

Euthenasia cannot be made legal without the state being a willing accomplice to suicide and/or "medicinal homicide." For even if it were left to the private sector, as you suggest, ignoring the ethical dilemma of that for the time being, the state would still have to establish rules and procedures to protect people from abuse, for how does one determine if another is "beyond all hope," and not simply another victim of a sociopath? If a person kills himself, the state has no one to punish, and any attempt to punish a terminally ill person for attempting suicide is an exercise in futility. If a doctor aids in killing another, however, he must be held responsible for his actions.

Any individual confronted with such a situation may very well be physically incapacitated. Remember, the only people who should be considering such actions are those who simply can't go on because their bodies are so far gone, that the only thing they are capable of is bedridden suffering in the short time they have left before they expire.

It is just as logical to assume that if their agony is so great that the patient is physically incapacitated, that his mind may have been incapacitated by the duress as well. Like I said, living wills and springing durable powers of attorney are the perfect solution for those in fear their life might be artificially extended beyond their desire for such extrodinary methods to be used, up to and including the treatments of food and oxygen. They can do this, incidently, while they are not in pain, and while their mental faculties are still inarguably functioning. In the meantime, the time on Earth for the terminally ill, absent the life-saving procedures, can be made less painful with the use of morphine and the like, so that he does not feel unnecessary pain.