What I have learned from my suicidal patients

Re:What I have learned from my suicidal patients by BLKNSLVR on Saturday November 23, 2019 @05:31PM (#21617068)

Euthanasia is a distinctly separate topic to suicide (in my mind), but since you brought it up, here is a magnificent oration by Andrew Denton on the topic:

https://youtu.be/FMP8eDEik14

It's 50 minutes, and I haven't seen all of it, but it's sad and moving and somehow perfectly combines humanity and logic.

(Edited to specify my own bias)

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Re:What I have learned from my suicidal patients by sysbin on Saturday November 23, 2019 @05:34PM (#21617081)

How is suicide not an attempt at self inflicted euthanasia? I'll watch your video (thanks).

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Re:What I have learned from my suicidal patients by BLKNSLVR on Saturday November 23, 2019 @06:53PM (#21617411)

> How is suicide not an attempt at self inflicted euthanasia?

There's a specific separation in my mind of the definition of the two, whether that's reflected in the dictionary or not.

The video is fairly specifically about end-of-life kind of suffering, which is along the lines of my definition of euthanasia (rightly or wrongly). Re-reading my comment, and your questioning of it, I do present it more "black and white" than it actually is.

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Re:What I have learned from my suicidal patients by shkkmo on Saturday November 23, 2019 @07:08PM (#21617455)

So as soon as we develope the ability to keep people on perpetual life support, any right to euthanasia would go out the window?

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