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Life with a Lethal Gene
charles robert darwin writes "The New York Times is running a story on young people who are choosing to get genetic tests for conditions like Huntington's Disease that develop relatively late in life. Apparently, while a genetic test for HD has been around for a while, very few people who have a parent with the disease choose to take the test. This story focuses on a young woman who did and tested positive. The piece follows her as she deals with the consequences. '...as a raft of new DNA tests are revealing predispositions to all kinds of conditions, including breast cancer, depression and dementia, little is known about what it is like to live with such knowledge.' With the HapMap and the $1,000 genome, this is something we are all going to face in one way or another very soon, and we really need to start thinking about it."
That's when euthanasia just makes sense.
What is "holy" in life at this point? What is the sense of being the crumbles of what I was before? Why obliging me and my relatives sustain the weight of my agony?
That woman needs relief, needs to rest.
-- Patent no.123456: A way to personalize
The difference is that the drug addicts could have chosen to do what they learned in D.A.R.E.