Re:Spain: Parliament passes law legalizing assisted suicide
by soco on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:27AM
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I don't know much about real world cases related to sketchy mental conditions. I know cases about people terminally ill, put in palliative care, which simply cannot go on with the pains without any hope for ever getting better. These are the main (or sole, dare to say) consumers of assisted suicide, at least in Switzerland.
Re:Spain: Parliament passes law legalizing assisted suicide
by auganov on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:47AM
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Euthanasia over psychiatric conditions is already a very real thing in Belgium [0] (and the Netherlands I believe). Swiss seems to be more conservative in approvals all across the board but mental isn't off the table either [1].
The implications are pretty troubling to me personally. Someone gets diagnosed with a sketchy mental condition, which in turn causes them to contemplate death, and then the very same doctors approve their euthanasia.
If I tell anybody to kill themselves I will rightfully get criminally charged. Someone approving an euthanasia is pretty close. Sure, they may want it, but so will people who get denied, one cannot say the act of approving is completely meaningless.