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Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths by Freak_NL on Thursday December 12, 2024 @03:10PM (#42402889)
Who are you to judge whether someone who has lived for over seven decades should go on living or not? If they feel their life is done, have nothing left to live for, and fear degenerating into a husk of their former selves (dementia) stuck inside a broken brain for as long as their body holds out, than why should they hang on?

It's arrogant and selfish to force people to live on for as long as doctors can keep their body alive. No euthanasia just means more messy suicides.

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Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths by nashashmi on Thursday December 12, 2024 @04:51PM (#42403786)
> Who are you to judge whether someone who has lived for over seven decades should go on living or not?

When an old man claims this, that is arrogant.

> to force people to live

I don't think anyone can force another to live beyond their ill-fated death.

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