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Re:Palliative sedation, an end-of-life practice that is lega... by sokoloff on Monday July 09, 2018 @08:51AM (#17489810)
My personal inclination is that anyone of sound enough mind to carefully consider the topic ought to be able to opt for physician-assisted suicide after a short waiting/consulting period as an essential element of agency over their own life.

That's beside the point in that the current medical practice and legal environment doesn't support that position broadly, so with respect to medical indication, the fact that some people die from a given condition does not seem to be a workable threshold for supporting euthanasia as a treatment.

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Re:Palliative sedation, an end-of-life practice that is lega... by intralizee on Monday July 09, 2018 @05:25PM (#17493547)
Some people don't die from an illness that is considered a terminal illness and which receives euthanasia in the current medical practice. I can think of a few people who have survived certain types of cancer. Also it really depends on where a person is located right now. I could obtain euthanasia if I were to fly to Switzerland. I haven't considered doing that just yet and I don't necessarily find it the same as receiving the treatment in my birth country. There has already been a case where a person suffering Gender Dysphoria received euthanasia (not my country) and someone obtained euthanasia from traumatic rape throughout childhood (again not my country).
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