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Is a life sentence justified for assisted dying? : Comments

By David Leyonhjelm, published 24/11/2015

Three states have life imprisonment as the maximum penalty, while in others the maximum penalty varies from 5 to 25 years.

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Well given assisted dying can still be murder, I see very little reason to change this law. and even more so when today's terminal illness may well be tomorrow's miracle cure.

All we need are living wills and doctors no longer prosecuted for the fact that adequately dealing with end of life pain and suffering, may well suppress the life force to the point of extinction!

I can however empathise with folk who think that for them life is just endless interminable and largely pointless and lonely waiting, while those medications meant to improve the quality of life; steal their cognitive abilities, their NORMAL libido, taste buds and almost everything that once gave them some modicum of pleasure, making them easy depressed targets for those who might well have a pecuniary interest in a quick and easy outcome?

As they say, where there's a will there's always a relative! And given the emerging case against statins, some otherwise very fine folk seem to find a fistfull of dollars more important than the hippocratic oath, a medical degree and at least doing no harm!?
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 8:22:57 AM
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Thank you David and good luck with your initiative.

Beyond this particular issue, what should be of concern is the unusual powers and money given by the state to medical practitioners of the Western school of medicine and the special privileges given to their closed organisation, the AMA. Their monopoly should be broken, over medicine itself as well as in several other loosely-related areas: I hope you address this in your term as senator.
Posted by Yuyutsu, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 8:59:09 AM
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Assited dying. Euthanasia. Suicide. Call it what you will. The state should keep its nose out of the way people choose to die. The current situation is tyranny: plain and simple.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 9:26:51 AM
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David - you assert that there is such a thing as "a right to die at a time of our choosing".

That is an incredible claim.

If that claim is accepted then there will be no basis whatsoever for refusing anyone at all assistance to die. If the "right to die" is accepted as a human right then all human beings must be given access to that right, not only if they are terminally ill or suffering, but merely because they are human beings.

If this arrticle is an indication of how poorly you have thought this through, you are truly a very dangerous man to have in politics.
Posted by JP, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 9:40:36 AM
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Rhosty, Yuyutsu & ttbn, i hear where we are all coming from but this debate is always promoted by communists who want to reduce the number of conservative voters by killing more older people faster.

JP, too true, Libertarian-ISM is the new ISM.
Posted by imacentristmoderate, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 10:17:45 AM
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might not start with the granny flat hunters but you have to be blindly ignorant to see that killing the unborn babies have nothing to do with the poor 14 year old girl who has been raped in 98% plus cases. Open your eyes David.
Posted by runner, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 10:23:20 AM
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