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Re: Anyone's PDoc Ever Say It's Your Choice To End Lif

Posted by papillon2 on October 7, 2012, at 9:33:14

In reply to Re: Anyone's PDoc Ever Say It's Your Choice To End Lif, posted by jono_in_adelaide on October 2, 2012, at 17:55:16

> The anti suicide laws in Australia were repealed in the 1970's, so it is everybodys right here to end their life - however, its still a crime to assist someone in a suicide.
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> I think if the person is in the grip of a deep endrogenous depression, then its right to protect them from them self until drugs can kick in, becase they arnt thinking straight.... it isnt a rational decision .... but if a person has been depressed or ill for years, and is at the end of the road re treatments, sometimes suiicde can be a rational act - the ides of living with that pain for another xxx years might be too awful to contemplate.
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> We wouldnt blame a cancer patient for ending it to avoid spending their last few weeks or months in agony, and psychiatric pain is just as bad, we shouldnt blame someone who reaches the point where they just cant go on living any more.

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