All very confusing. Euthanasia is now defined as such only if a doctor does it for you. Therefore, if you put yourself out of misery, it must be plain old fashioned suicide, which is still on the books as being illegal, I believe. You can't win! Forget all the blather from people who think they know what's best for us. DIY still seems the way to go.

People can already choose to end unbearable lives! What euthanasia demands is that someone else does it for them!

As for choosing not to suffer, all that is required to achieve that is a living will, while you're still in charge of all your faculties!

Besides, it is the nearest and dearest who are required to decide on your behalf, when you are no longer able to.

Or are just too depressed to make rational decisions.

Euthanasia is not a cure for aged depression, self pity or loneliness!

Which is 80-90% of the reasons for wanting life and its sheer boredom to end!?

A surprising number who share this view frequently change their minds after a stay in hospitable, where they receive the longed for care and attention!

And or, exposed to folk far worse off/suffering far more and bearing stoically rather than as spineless whining whimps!

Hardly a week goes by than we hear of a new breakthrough that treats painful conditions, say like crippling rheumatoid arthritis.

Misery loves company, and voluntary euthanasia is about hopelessness and hopeless people just giving up: when for all we know, that impossible cure/big win/changed circumstances/unexpected help is just around the corner?

And VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA has already ended the lives of folk with entirely imagined or already cured problems!?

If you're serious about not wanting to suffer, then make a living will!

Ensure your family and G.P. receive a copy, so they can know your real mind, rather than try and read it, when you are unconscious or rendered speechless by a stroke.

Being asked to give up booze or nicotine in the interests of your health, may seem like the end of the world and an excuse to want to shuffle off the mortal coil, that no longer encourages folk to slowly kill themselves, and ask others to foot the bill?

Voluntary Euthanasia is already available to folk in Canada and Belgium, and the evidence from there suggests very strongly that starting down that path is indeed a very slippery slope! Besides, we can already choose not to suffer!
Rhrosty.

' People generally dislike others interfering in their life, not respecting their views, telling them with whom they should have sex,'

Of course paedophiles hate others telling them who they can have sex with David. And of course those rigtheous souls who cant wait to receive their inheritance despite not even bothering to visit their parents/grandparents would cheer your suggestion.

Oh that's right you are an ethicist and exempt from the adamic nature (at least in your own eyes).

Whatever, Runner.

Doesn't the "bible" instruct those who believe in it literally (you, I gather) to mind their own sins first and foremost? Specifically ahead of those of others? Do get on with it. chop chop, times a-wasting.

Remember, It is an *order* to *you* from *your* holy "god", so don't feel you need make a retort, just get humble and get worried about your own failings.

Bye.

Rusty.

I know you don't like the stupidity of your dogmas exposed Rusty. Same old moral relativist garbage with the 'enlightened' being used to justify the perverse and wicked. A little like the dishonest secularist who claimed abortion was about that poor 15 year old raped. Now we have the industry reaping millions per year in the murder of the unborn. Oh wonderful thing human nature without restraint isn't it Rusty.

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