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'Unproductive burdens' still have a right to live : Comments
By David van Gend, published 1/4/2011Getting older? Do you agree with ex-GG Bill Hayden 'There is a point when the succeeding generations deserve to be disencumbered of some unproductive burdens.'?
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"In Oregon, for instance, of the 49 patients who died by physician-assisted suicide in 2007 not a single patient was referred for psychiatric assessment prior to taking their lethal drug."
Yes, psychiatric or psychological assessment or both would be highly desirable.
Whether 'euthanasia [is] a corruption of the doctor-patient relationship and .. an insidious oppression of society's "unproductive burdens" ' is debatable, so requires further elaboration, discussion and debate.
What should not be trivialised is the reality these discussions are the domain of all in society and is not just driven by the Greens or their haters.