Wiredgeek Wrote:But I'm sure my mother would rather have been able to clock out into a beautiful dream than die screaming as her liver failed.I didn't know that you can read minds, Wiredgeek... (What I know about my sister is what she told me, repeatedly.)
Ayiekie Wrote:While recognising the possibilities for abuse of legal euthanasia, it is fundamentally unjust for the law to take away someone's right to die when and how they see fit. Neither the choice to live nor the choice to die should be forced on anyone.And I've heard some third-hand reports (from news reports quoting grieving family members, so take them with a large gain of salt) that the choice was forced on some of these people. If that's true - I repeat, if - then he wasn't the saint that some right-to-die advocates claim.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012