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Why not simply legalise suicide ? That's an act of genuine self-determination, after all ? End of.

Whether one leaves it all too late and has to somehow involve someone else in one's last hours, is another matter.

So let's move step by step, and see how it goes: legalise suicide, make it sort of respectable, and see how that goes.

I have a fair idea that if I'm sure that I have Alzheimer's, I'll kiss everybody goodbye at a certain point and mean it. Like everyone in Adelaide, I live near a beach, so it will probably be late summer.

There's a thought for economic innovation in SA: make Adelaide the suicide capital of the world - you can stay in the best hotels, see the sights, taste all the wines from Clare and the Barossa down to the Vales and Middleton, even get down to the Limestone Coast and Coonawarra or up into the Riverland. Then, perhaps in groups of new-found and tipsy friends, walk into the sea at West Beach. Economists estimate it could bring $ 453.9 million into the SA economy each year.

Sounds good :)

Joe

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What abuse? I read Rusty's posts and saw no abuse. God bless the Stasi, protecting us from non-abuse.

I thought this thread was about euthanasia, not abortion? Runner strikes again....

Loudmouth, I fail to see the point in legalising suicide, or in leaving it illegal.
Who are we going to punish once the person kills themselves?

The main point about legalising voluntary euthanasia is to assist those unable to finish their own life by themselves, so banging on about suicide is really a moot point.

No one is calling for involuntary euthanasia in any case, so anyone who opposes legalising voluntary euthanasia is free to fight on bravely to the bitter end, as they please...

//Why not simply legalise suicide ? That's an act of genuine self-determination, after all ? End of.//

It is legal. Has been for some time. They used to imprison people who attempted suicide, and then some clever dick figured out that when a man has just tried to kill himself and failed, sticking him in gaol for the night is probably not the best way to improve his general outlook on life.

//The main point about legalising voluntary euthanasia is to assist those unable to finish their own life by themselves//

And to give the still capable a better option than severing the femoral artery, which I regard as the best option in the absence of appropriate pharmaceuticals. It's quick but it's very messy. Wouldn't it just be easier to allow those who wish to end their lives the chance to do so in a dignified manner?

Those who claim that medicine can cure or alleviate all suffering have been taking too much prozac. Medicine still can't give quality of life to people with MS, auto-immune disease, alzheimers, and a long list of other things that render a person's life miserable or pointless.

I want the option to take a pill if and when I feel its time. The vatican fan-boys and their politician front-men want to stop me having a choice; oh right, a bunch of prissy old men in drag have the audacity to tell me what's "moral" while their church has spent decades covering up child abuse?