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Re:Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws by bolangi on Saturday August 20, 2022 @02:05AM (#32529572)
What do you call assisted suicide that is not assented to by the subject?
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Re:Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws by bambax on Saturday August 20, 2022 @03:41AM (#32530086)
An impossibility. If there is no consent there is no "suicide", assisted or otherwise.
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Re:Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws by ben_w on Saturday August 20, 2022 @05:13AM (#32530610)
The term for what is done to pets and research animals is "euthanasia" — is that consensual? Or even "assented" or "acquiesced" to, if you want to side-step the question of how informed one has to be for it to count as "consent".
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Re:Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws by mberger on Saturday August 20, 2022 @08:22AM (#32531499)
Pets are not people and cannot consent. Euthanasia is not assisted dying. There is no 'assistance' when one party doesn't share the goal. Straw man.
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Re:Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws by ben_w on Saturday August 20, 2022 @06:52PM (#32535868)
The previous comments, the link text, the article on the other side of the link, and the Canadian members of parliament debating this law all used the term “euthanasia”, so no, it is not a straw man.
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Re:Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws by oleander73 on Saturday August 20, 2022 @02:12AM (#32529600)
A contradictio in terminis.
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