Choose How You Die.

So far, most of you don't mind the idea of growing very old, even if it means you lose your faculties, and start to pee yourself

And you are also keen to die free of pain, which is implying to me that you would support a person's self determination to end their own life, in a controlled medical environment, under certain legal conditions.

Right?

 

More then that...it should be legal for anyone of sound mind to end their life whenever they wish.

 

I don't think it is illegal, at least not here.

However, if someone tried and failed, they MAY be asked to get help.

 

It is illegal in many places.

 

What do they do if he or she succeeds - bring them back to life, then jail 'em?

 

Yes...skeet & trapshooting! She still has exceptional coordination at age 92.

 

Barrel under the chin and pointed up, a deer slug in the chamber...it will work.

 

Flying my space fighter into the alien mother ship.

 

I'd want to die in no pain. I couldn't imagine anything worse than suffering before I died.

 

No, no, no. In your mouth and pointed backwards to remove as much brain as possible. You want to anchor it against your teeth, cheeks, etc because pulling the trigger makes your move the gun and instead you just remove your face.

 

cut in half by a lightsaber.

 

I've been in plenty of pain before. Both emotionally and physically. Of course not cancer pain but still plenty.

I respect others choice to die. But for me the choice is obvious. Life or death. Hope or nothingness.

I'm a technology nerd and I plan on seeing as far into the future as my body will allow. And hopefully once my body gives up I can still go on inside a computer! Because even that's better than nothing at all.

 

It's out the box - I like it.

 

Are you very very stoned?

 

Wielded by death vader?

 

I agree and disagree. How do you determine whether a person of sound mind, who wants to commit suicide for no apparent reason, is actually sound of mind at all?

 

From medical records, for one thing, and by patient consultation, for another.

How do determine that they aren't?

 

There comes a time in almost every one's life when the body becomes a prison of agony. When that happens almost every one welcomes death as an old friend.

 

Evening, Socrates.

 

Good evening my friend.

 

There is no way to prove otherwise, so perhaps it is best to err on the side of caution.

 

No - if you were concerned, it would be up to you to prove them not of sound mind, in other words, they do not have the cognative awareness to understand what they are agreeing to.

Unless there was evidence of that, either in their medical notes, or after a consulatants notes, then I think you have to conclude that the person is of sound mind.

In other words, it is their choice.

 

You would need strong safeguards in place to prevent family members suing.

 

Everyone would merely need to write it in their will, that this is their wish.

And, of course it would be regulated.

It already is. Very. In nations that accept it.

 

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