Once we adopt the principle that suicide is acceptable, then the - TopicsExpress



          

Once we adopt the principle that suicide is acceptable, then the fences erected around it—having six months to live, or having mental capacity, for example—are inevitably arbitrary. These restrictions will eventually be abandoned, as the situation with assisted suicide in Belgium and the Netherlands demonstrates: To cite just a few examples, in Belgium assisted suicide has been granted to a man with untreatable depression and to a prisoner suffering psychological anguish; in the Netherlands, assisted suicide has been granted to a woman because she did not want to live in a nursing home. - Aaron Keriaty M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Program of Medical Ethics at University of California Irvine
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:02:21 +0000

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