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What if you're not all that sick, but don't want to be a bother and the assorted variations on that. Does one have to be ill, in-pain, what?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 11:05:11 AM EST
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If you are physically capable of swallowing the poison pill, you have to do it yourself.

No other conditions. Maybe a 4 week waiting period to not have people killing themselves due to temporary unhappiness. Otherwise, no conditions, no age requirement, or 'sanity' requirement.

I can think of nothing more inhumane than forcing someone to live against their wishes.

by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 11:09:28 AM EST
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Hmm. Don't like it. Too easy to manipulate people into popping the last pill if it's acceptable.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 11:16:01 AM EST
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Sure. Still, less worse than making someone continue their misery against their wishes. Death is not the worst thing that can happen to you!
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 11:18:16 AM EST
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I'm not quite certain that I'd consider suicide under pressure less awful than preventing someone offing themselves. It's not obvious to me where the point of balance is in this.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 11:20:30 AM EST
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If I may be so bold to reveal the ending of Mar Adentro (spoiler alert!):

In the end, Rámon Sampredo (the protagonist), who's been paralysed from the neck down for close to thirty years, commits suicide by drinking a poisonous liquid through a straw from a glass standing on a table right next to his bed. Friends of his prepared the liquid and placed the glass right next to him, but ultimately the decision to drinking the liquid is his. I'd have a hard time convicting his friends for anything, other than being good friends.


"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde

by NordicStorm (michael<-at->sturmbaum.net) on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 11:21:00 AM EST
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