Terry Pratchett Considers Assisted Suicide

cHALiTO writes "Beloved science fiction and fantasy writer Terry Pratchett has terminal early-onset Alzheimer's. He's determined to have the option of choosing the time and place of his death, rather than enduring the potentially horrific drawn-out death that Alzheimer's sometimes brings. But Britain bans assisted suicide, and Pratchett is campaigning to have the law changed. As part of this, he has visited Switzerland's Dignitas clinic, an assisted suicide facility, with a BBC camera crew, as part of a documentary that will include Britain's first televised suicide. Pratchett took home Dignitas's assisted suicide consent forms."

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Suicide

[fish_in_the_c]

Suicide is mans attempt to keep control of what he never had any control of. Himself.
Legal suicide is an invitation for the 'state' to decide who is worthy to live and die because it immediately puts law makers in the position of deciding who's life is worthy of being required to live. As has always happened in the past legal suicide will not be fully voluntary for long , because it will be used as an excuse to not take care of those people who choose not to use the 'option' when they are no longer 'worthy' of support.

Re:Not much else to say.

[MysteriousPreacher]

That article is a compendium of slippery slopes and the usual Catholic bullshit. Schiavo as an example? She was meat by the time they stopped feeding her.

They also fail to note how the process runs in Oregon works. It's not as if one could wheel grandma in today and collect the corpse this afternoon. Most who eventually receive their medication don't actually use it. Yes it can be abused, but Catholic logic kissing in public is something that inevitably leads to blowjobs on buses.

Fuck Catholics. If they can make a good argument supported by something more substantial than scare-mongering conjecture and sanctity of life at all costs then let's hear it. If all they have is sanctimonious platitudes then they should note that their ongoing protection of men who rape children places them pretty low on scale of people who we should give a shit about listening to on matters of ethics.