Assisted Suicide

[minionofmidas]

Not, alas, that unlikely to decide to "want to die" to save your badgering offspring bother and money, rather than to save yourself pointless suffering.

Incidentally, the current de facto situation here in Europe where if you really want it, you can take the effort of transporting to Switzerland to do it there... seems to be working (preventing such abuses more effectively than they could be under any legal framework) for us non-Swiss Western Europeans.

[minionofmidas]

And of course there's also the whole field of what you might call 'passive euthanasia', ie not doing medical procedures necessary to keep you alive for the time being or at least to have a chance to do so, at the patient's behest. The legality of that is certainly a good thing.

[minionofmidas]

Doctors do f[inks]uck up more than is polite to remember, of course. Human error is what it is, and there are some people in all fields who are frankly no good at their job.

But much of the problematic aspect to all of this isn't doctors so much as relatives. Which is an even less polite thought, I think.

Wouldn't relatives be generally biased in the other direction though? I'd imagine it's more likely that they refuse to let one go rather than push him to.

Not if there's money at stake.

It's a class issue.

[minionofmidas]

It's a class issue.

What isn't?

Nothing.