I'm so conflicted about euthanasia. I used to be firmly pro-euthanasia until I read an article written by a patient who had previously battled for the right to be euthanized, and lost. Years later she was thankful that she had lost, thankful she was alive, and she was arguing against legal euthanasia. I wish I remembered her name or the name of the article
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physician-assisted suicide is already practised quietly and routinely, with the help of a famous loophole (principle of double effect). This is working fine, so we don't need to legalize euthanasia.What that's referring to is the fact that if you're treating someone with intense, terminal pain, the very medications that are used to treat the pain can also help usher in death
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First, I want to re-iterate that I wasn't actually stating my own opinion on euthanasia. I was just summarizing the main points that were brought up in an article that I read on euthanasia a long time ago. Personally, I'm undecided on the subject of euthanasia
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To address some of these arguments, I don't think the phenomenon of some people changing their minds later is a relevant argument for denying it. To force people to remain alive because they might change their minds later is someone else choosing to gamble with their well-being as the stakes, or rather forcing them to gamble their chance at relief for a change of heart that might never come
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No doubt he enjoys life today, he states that you have no idea what it is like until you have been there.
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Did you in fact read the article at all?
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Personally, I'm undecided on the subject of euthanasia. I stated so at the beginning of my comment.
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