(11-18-2019, 05:34 PM)geyu29 Wrote:

(11-17-2019, 11:55 AM)rappa Wrote:

(10-28-2019, 09:42 PM)geyu29 Wrote: Again so many possibilities to consider. What makes you think that a suffering of a man gives you the right to end their life with/without their input?
If someone whos deeply disturbed mentally be given the choice to end their life because they have had suicidal tendencies in the past.
The human body can only endure so much for so long, and that little timeframe they have time to live and experience, if it were years of pain, they'd likely be in a coma.
By encouraging suicide what kind of society are you going to develop? where death is a norm, insurance companies looking for business opportunities and better profit.
A society where a person is mentally unstable he should be made to feel as a victim of a 'horrible crime', while a person in the middle east or south asia who have a different outlook on death, those who are more religious see it as god's will and consider suicide immoral act in the eyes of god. A godless society where kids are killing themselves because of bullying, that was an epidemic in late 2000s, you dont hear about that much too often today.
Giving normalisation factor to suicide does in no way affect the society in a positive manner. You shouldnt look at one individual but the whole of society.

I didn't say it gives me the right. If they want to die, let them.

Its not just limited to individual choice. The after-effect leads onto worldly issues of societal impact, where it isnt an individual choice, rather how society views it, take motivation from it, be more conformed to pain, be it mental or physical (both are magnetic to eachother).
You already have a choice to suicide, the problem with doctor-assisted suicide, is the state is accommodating and providing the tool to end a life, which many specialists call immoral, this is state interference in choice of life or death.
Societies, especially american society which called themselves a holy nation doing god's work have forgotten their religious values in the pursuit of money, which doest take a research to know but here you go - https://www.pewforum.org/2015/11/03/u-s-public-becoming-less-religious/
This mainly occurring in western societies.
Kids who are killing themselves because they lost somebody they love or broke up with their girlfriend, the older generation were not told they were 'victims' instead they were told that these are part of life, you have to deal with it, its not anything you didnt predict already.
The level of of mental instability, meaning being in your right mind to make a rational decision, or to make a decision for somebody whos in a coma who's unable to communicate, you cant agree or disagree by taking one thing and holding onto it, everything else must be considered into the occasion also, as policy makers do.

Someboy above posted this debate it should provide the intricacies that have to be discussed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUhVMII0Ch0

(03-14-2020, 09:05 PM)Gaarg Wrote: This is a very difficult question. What will happen if a doctor is incompetent and recognizes a person as capable of making such decisions?