Re:Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it
by nradov on Friday March 07, 2025 @11:51AM
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Stop lying, I haven't moved any goalposts. In medical ethics there is a clear line between withholding care versus actively killing someone who is unable to give informed consent to the procedure.
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Re:Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it
by simoncion on Friday March 07, 2025 @04:49PM
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You absolutely have moved them (and also refuse to talk about pre-registered requests to die (of which, the request that kicked off this subthread totally qualifies)). You started by saying
> I hope we have the compassion as individuals not to ask others to kill us. That's a heavy weight to put on someone else. It's not abstract "society" conducting the euthanasia: individual healthcare providers would have to decide that you met the criteria and then administer the drugs.
(while ignoring that asking a doctor or nurse to kill you is also asking another to kill us) and now you've moved to talking about specific situations that can be tricky, depending on the particulars.