oddjob
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Interesting article on asssisted dying in the Netherlands.
"Unbearable suffering" seems a rather subjective term. Any suffering that doesn't kill you is, in a certain sense, bearable. You'd just rather not bear it.
I'm in favour BTW.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...etherlands-sees-rise-in-demand-for-euthanasia
Pleiter further mentions the case of a 60-year-old man with a compulsive personality disorder, which compelled him to spend hours every morning cleaning a cupboard, and then regularly self-harm with a razor, before he finally asked the clinic to end his life-long hell.
“Unbearable suffering without prospect of improvement. That is all [the law] says,” Pleiter argues. “It does not say you need to be suffering from cancer, need to be in a terminal state.”
“Unbearable suffering without prospect of improvement. That is all [the law] says,” Pleiter argues. “It does not say you need to be suffering from cancer, need to be in a terminal state.”
"Unbearable suffering" seems a rather subjective term. Any suffering that doesn't kill you is, in a certain sense, bearable. You'd just rather not bear it.
I'm in favour BTW.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...etherlands-sees-rise-in-demand-for-euthanasia