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That said back on Euthanasia I'm against people asking others to kill them, a license to self suicide if supported makes more sense.

Quote from: subSTRATA on October 12, 2015, 12:38:42 PM

Thanks for the clarification, but as for the suggestion for a license for suicide, how would that impact anything? would having such a license permit a holder to a facility that would assist in that person's suicide? if so, how is that any different from euthanasia?

No problem and the benefit of a license is that people will need to decide for themselves without involving the guilt of others who survive after the person is dead. If they are unwilling to do so then they must live on, in the end it's their ultimate choice and they should be held responsible for their own outcome and not put it into the hands of another.

Basically I'm implying a License to Kill (YOURSELF)

Euthanasia in my opinion forces doctors to do the task, which is against their code of well trying their best to keep people alive.
That said if the doctors want to have the right to do it in some cases that would be acceptable but not for perfectly well and fit individuals like in the OP, more for vegetable state individuals etc.
http://www.macleans.ca/society/health/why-doctors-want-the-right-to-pull-the-plug-2/

why would people need a license to kill themselves? that's called suicide and is executed out of free will already. no one else is involved already, why complicate it with a license? i really dont see the point here.

I think it's not a bad idea. It would simply say that this person had gone through all the psychological and other tests to say that there is no doubt that he wants that and he is fine with forfeiting the chances of being healed in the future.

So they could go to a doctor and ask for a poison.

Such certificate should lose it's validity after 6 months or so. Not that someone wears that all the time and when the next time a woman hurt his heart he gets poisened even though a day later he would be fine.

i see now, but in my opinion, even having the assistance of being supplied poison is euthanasia as there is some assistance being given; suicide i think is characterized by the willingness to go the full distance to one's life, there's no one else to pull the trigger for you, you take it from start to finish. having a legal means to acquire an out of life i think is still assisted suicide, ie euthanasia. that's just me though.

Euthanasia can be a difficult issue, personally If I'm dying or become a vegetable, I'd rather die quickly and painlessly