Should euthanasia be available to all?

Emptier2456 · Post by **Emptier2456** » Fri Dec 30, 2022 4:20 pm

Does the government have the obligation to allow tax payers to die if he/she so chooses?

thinkaboutit2 · Post by **thinkaboutit2** » Sat May 27, 2023 4:15 pm

Available to all? Probably not. There may be really good reasons to have it be available, such as for incurable diseases or really bad mental heath issues where the only way out is euthanasia.

The general problem is the person making the decision may not have made the same decision if he was in a sound state of mind. Just ask anyone who was suicidal in the past and is thankful now that he didn't do it, there are a lot of people like that.

lgillis · Post by **lgillis** » Thu Jun 01, 2023 5:29 pm

thinkaboutit2 wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 4:15 pm … Just ask anyone who was suicidal in the past and is thankful now that he didn't do it, there are a lot of people like that.

I suspect a significant imbalance in the selection of respondents in favor of survivors.

That is only marginally the issue, thinkaboutit2. The questioner's formulation is aimed at creating a law that the individual can invoke. This would mean that the state would have to create the necessary facilities and would be a service provider in the area of a dignified death.

Not the life-weary person would have to present reasons to be allowed to die on his own responsibility, without the doctors who have sworn an oath to prevent it, but the state would have to prove in each individual case that the future life is guaranteed to be so much better that the current motivation for suicide is invalidated.