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Old 06-02-2002, 09:27 AM   #29
Melusine
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Join Date: January 8, 2001
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Age: 45
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I would tentatively vote yes to all three as well, haven't voted yet though. Like some of the others, the wording in question three makes me doubt.
I am completely decided on the first two questions, however. I think a person should have the right to decide about his/her life anyway (even though I certainly think someone with suicidal tendencies should be prevented from doing it in any way possible, in the end it's their own decision to make), but in the case of a terminal illness, this holds true even more. I mean, the relatives/loved ones of the patient have no idea what excruciating pain he/she is going through, so they cannot make a judgement about whether the patient should be "allowed" to end the suffering. How CAN they judge about that when they don't have to go through the same suffering, let alone imagine what it would be like?
Sorry, but especially in the cases where the patient will eventually die of the illness anyway, I think it is inhuman to deny them the right to die in a reasonably dignified way.
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