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Post by bertra on Dec 15, 2008 4:10:13 GMT -6
In Belgium and Holland there are laws enabling anyone to actively terminate a human's life by his own request. wow FIY. Here in the Netherlands it is not possible for just anyone to actively terminate another's life by request. In fact it is illegal, but there is a certain regulation that enables doctors after a long procedure to euthanise a patient. It is these regulations that keep doctors from euthanising patients that still have the slightest possible outlook on life / glimmer of hope. If any part of the regulations is ignored the doctors will be charged of murder. I definitely think it's a good thing, wish I could express my thoughts better in english.
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Post by Grey on Dec 15, 2008 10:49:05 GMT -6
Andie, suicide was decriminalised absolutely years ago. my mistake, but it is still illegal to aid and abett.
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Post by furoraceltica on Dec 31, 2008 17:24:27 GMT -6
This week Sky News has broadcast the assisted suicide of a man in the infamous Dignitas Clinic in Zurich. Though they are considered terminal ill, there is a big question whether anyone has the right to actively assist them to die. On a broadcast on TV they reported a story of a mentally ill young man who too was assisted taking his own life in that clinic. He was miserable with his personal life. Not a case of a terminal ill. And these humanist swiss physicians helped him to terminate his own life. In Belgium and Holland there are laws enabling anyone to actively terminate a human's life by his own request. Unbelievable! Even in Texas, that has the most busiest death chamber, its illegal to terminate the life of a mentally ill. But in Switzerland its completely legal. And these Europeans have the nerve criticizing the U.S for its capital punishment system. You make an excellent point. The European Union (EU) says that lethal injections to kill violent criminals are wrong, but lethal injections to kill terminally ill patients are ay-okay. Executing criminals bad! Executing patients good! Gotta love the EU mind set You may also wish to google "Groningen Protocol", which allows babies and children to be euthanised as well. Gotta love those ever so sophisticated Euro-leftists.
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Post by Donnie on Jan 3, 2009 14:07:13 GMT -6
Concur. If your life doesn't belong to you, what does? Some people's lives belong to the murderers who take it.
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Post by Matt on Jan 3, 2009 19:12:52 GMT -6
I also think that doctors today, for those who are terminally ill, up morphine gradually so they die of an overdose. I believe that is true in almost every case at the end stage of terminal cancer. At least it was with the five individuals whom I have known to die from it.
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Post by Donnie on Jan 3, 2009 19:49:37 GMT -6
Maybe because the person being killed has ASKED to be put to death. A murderer who murders in a death penalty jurisdiction has also asked to be put to death. Nuance, you know.
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Post by Donnie on Jan 3, 2009 19:51:41 GMT -6
Here in the Netherlands it is not possible for just anyone to actively terminate another's life by request. In fact it is illegal, but there is a certain regulation that enables doctors after a long procedure to euthanise a patient. It is these regulations that keep doctors from euthanising patients that still have the slightest possible outlook on life / glimmer of hope. If any part of the regulations is ignored the doctors will be charged of murder. I definitely think it's a good thing, wish I could express my thoughts better in english. Welcome aboard. Thank you for the informaton. Your English looks fine to me.
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Post by Felix2 on Jan 3, 2009 19:54:52 GMT -6
I think it's unfair to pair up all antis' into one category. (such as all people who would agree with the assisted suicide of a non-terminally ill patient) I don't think that's what Moonlight was implying. People can believe that assisted suicide and capital punishment are both barbaric, of course. What seems hypocritical IMO is that since I've been on this board (2 years), not one European anti who calls capital punishment "barbaric" has bothered to mention that it's perfectly legal in Switzerland to assist in the suicide of physically healthy people who have committed no crimes and pose no threat to society whatsoever. I knew that assisted suicide was legal in some European countries, but honestly, I thought it was reserved for the terminally ill. I used to be against all forms of assisted suicide, until, when was it that Andy first came on the board? ;D
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