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Assisted suicide November 2018 : Comments

By David Leyonhjelm, published 23/11/2018

The struggle for the legalisation of assisted suicide across the nation will be long and hard.

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"... Calculated euphemisms clutter the world we live in. ..."

as in your last post.
Posted by Is Mise, Saturday, 24 November 2018 1:04:34 PM
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If suicide is a solution, then that can be applied instead of finding answers to change many ailments. Whether it's terminal illness or it's a growing depression, death is just giving up. If you give up on helping those who are the most vulnerable then sucide will be offered as an easy answer.

The whole idea is just sick.
Posted by Not_Now.Soon, Saturday, 24 November 2018 5:44:52 PM
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Suicide should be strongly advocated for those who make the lives of others a misery.
Posted by individual, Sunday, 25 November 2018 7:02:48 PM
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Individual, it's ideas like that which will kill the most vulnerable instead of trying to help them. But worse it's done for the connivence of someone else. So the other person (not the terminally ill person, nor the depressed person) is not as miserable.

Do you really not see that as already a steep, slippery slope for other excuses to talk people into killing themselves? "Your a burden to me, so you should do the right thing and kill yourself." "I don't want to pay for a nursing home to help you, and I can't help your dementia, so you should kill your self.

How much farther into the reasoning would a person have to go before desiring to make the decision themselves instead of waiting for the other person to commit sucide! It's an active encourager of either murder, or a lazy approach to not find help that might be readily available or recently discovered that can help an ailment.
Posted by Not_Now.Soon, Monday, 26 November 2018 2:00:19 AM
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Not_Now.Soon,

Bent people are not known to top themselves unless they're cornered for good. It's people with integrity who can't manage to cope with the crap that the hanger-on brigade dishes out every minute of the day. Just check on Centrelink as just one example.
The unreasonable (greedy & selfish) bombard us with constant messages of how the rest of us should live. Just look at those Help Lines, they urge people to learn how to accept more & more persecution instead of showing them ways & means how to fight back.
As you said it's all about connivance. I recall helping an 84 year old Scientist walking up a small beach. He was totally lucid & he said to me quote: " What a nuisance being that old". He also said that even if the mind is clear, if the body is stuffed then there's no point in prolonging the mental pain of hanging on for what ?
Posted by individual, Monday, 26 November 2018 7:11:47 AM
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No. Without the absolute right to defend life there's no safeguard.

And spare me the bleeding heart "dying with dignity" spiel. I know what it's like after watching my brother reduced to a skeleton with skin over a protracted losing battle with cancer.
Posted by jamo, Monday, 26 November 2018 8:36:37 AM
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