BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  RE: Right to Life
De:       Dumas Walker
Data:     Wed, 1 Apr 2026 12:52:07 -0500
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>  > I think if someone is bad off enough, they should have the right to choose
>  > for themselves.

>  > That said, they should also be shielded from the government encouraging
>  > them to choose assisted suicide if that is *not* what they want.

> I don't think anybody has objections towards putting people out of their
> missery, but they have objections about... external interference.

That is where my objections would lay, & especially if that interference is
coming from the government.

> This is fact: a lot of medical decisions are forced on people these days. They
> bing you a grandpa and you can tell it is the nephew and son and aunt calling
> all the shots and if grandpa does not want to do something they press and pres
> and press until he yields.

> Professionals are pissed off because they are getting euthanasia requests for
> nothing burguers and they need to waste half an hour telling people and their
> relatives they are not signing for an euthanasia over an sprained ankle.
> Specially because that is half an hour they could be devoting to people who
> actually needs medical services.

Here, I would hope such "encouragement" would be dealt with as a possible
life insurance fraud attempt, similar to how other suspicious deaths are
looked at.

> Opposite is also true, there are lots of relatives pressing in order to have
> grandma subsists in a morphine sustained zombie state that everybody else know
> is inhuman.

Yeah some do that also.  That does not always come from a bad place... some
of them just cannot accept that nothing else can be done... but it is still
not good for the person going through it.


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