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Re: Doctor-assisted suicide - February 7th 2015, 08:33 PM

While I'm an advocate of rights and freedom, I'm a little ambivalent when it comes to this topic. I stumble because I believe it should be legal whole heartedly but if it was someone I cared about I would find myself trying to talk them out of it. As much as I believe in freedom of choice I would not be so easily accepting if it was someone who told me their plan for it. I would treat it as a suicide for any other reason. But if it were me I would be angry if someone is pushing me to not do something. Maybe it is a human fault in me but I won't let myself just be like okay cool about it.
As for governments controlling that choice, that I'm against.
In that regard it should be legal.
In the regard of a family deciding while a person is in coma and did not specifically ask for it, I would be against.
Because if they can't tell you, and the doctor just wants to do it for economical purposes (happened to someone I know) and they pressure the family then I'm against that.