Assisted Suicide Poll.

[flibulzbuth]

I said yes to the first and second, but no to the third.

I think only a clear-headed person should be allowed to ask for assisted suicide. That means no depressive or mentaly-ill or retarded person.
All families are not nice, and some time they may wish a quick death for a relative, to get the heritage sooner and pay less for medical care.
I wouldn't let a medic decide for me if i should be shut down. They too have interests in this (coming from the administration). It reduces the cost of care. A canadian study proved that mortality is 2% higher in private medical centers than in public ones.

[Aelia Jusa]

Originally posted by flibulzbuth: I think only a clear-headed person should be allowed to ask for assisted suicide. That means no depressive or mentaly-ill or retarded person.

I do understand what you're saying here. But I'm thinking, people who have terminal illnesses want to die to end their suffering, so they don't have to be in pain or lose control over their life or live without dignity. It just seems terribly unfair that someone who we judge not to be in a fit state of mind - someone who is intellectually disabled, or mentally ill etc has to put up with all that suffering when they are clearly going to die anyway, just in a lot of pain and discomfort that could be avoided.