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Merged Euthanasia

Reading another couple of articles on it, it seems more a case of badly written law.

Or at least law written in a way that is a little free and easy with who can qualify.

Coincidentally we currently have a euthanasia bill going through parliament, which may or may not get voted through (It is a MP conscious vote)
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
By me and it's because I know depression is treatable and people who survive suicide attempts almost always are glad they did later on.
Make that ~90%, see below.


I do think the images of a healthy smiling girl are misleading. I doubt she looked physically OK.
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RE: the highlighted, why does mental health have a focus on people who have attempted suicide before then?
 
It is wrong, wrong, wrong. The Netherlands own laws state that a person taking that decision have to be free from mental illness.

This young woman was clearly mentally unbalanced. Anorexics do not make well-judged decisions. She had her life ahead of her. Maybe a husband and children.
 
cullennz said:
Reading another couple of articles on it, it seems more a case of badly written law.

Or at least law written in a way that is a little free and easy with who can qualify.

Coincidentally we currently have a euthanasia bill going through parliament, which may or may not get voted through (It is a MP conscious vote)
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'Minimum age for euthanasia is twelve'.

What?!
 
Darat said:
The mention of treatment in the original article, the UHC system in the Netherlands and the requirements for euthanasia not to be a crime.
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Governments can’t make bad law and bureaucracies never provide poor treatment ?

Seems you are too quick to say it is obvious.
 
kayle said:
so someone just should have told her: suffer some more years and you will feel better and forget everything?
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"Bad things happen to everyone, you should stop clinging to victimhood and just get over it already." - unsolicited advice many victims of childhood sexual abuse have to listen to regularly for the rest of their lives.
 
Vixen said:
It is wrong, wrong, wrong. The Netherlands own laws state that a person taking that decision have to be free from mental illness.

This young woman was clearly mentally unbalanced. Anorexics do not make well-judged decisions. She had her life ahead of her. Maybe a husband and children.
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sorry, in my society you don't tell me or anybody else that i have a life with (maybe) a husband/wife and a child ahead.

really, why are so many upset about this, i don't get it. because 17? 19'd be ok?
 
Checkmite said:
"Bad things happen to everyone, you should stop clinging to victimhood and just get over it already." - unsolicited advice many victims of childhood sexual abuse have to listen to regularly for the rest of their lives.
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ironically, often from people whose major pain has been the loss of their beloved dog/cat :D
 
Checkmite said:
kayle said:
so someone just should have told her: suffer some more years and you will feel better and forget everything?
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"Bad things happen to everyone, you should stop clinging to victimhood and just get over it already." - unsolicited advice many victims of childhood sexual abuse have to listen to regularly for the rest of their lives.
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Both of these are straw men in this thread. They might be applicable in another discussion about poor treatment of the mentally ill.
 
Darat said:
Many people do kill themselves even if they have access to the best healthcare.

From the article:

"..Last year, she revealed that been admitted to hospital in a critical condition after her anorexia had left her organs on the brink of failure.

Doctors placed her into a medically-induced coma to feed her through tubes..."

Sounds like she was going to kill herself no matter what, beyond putting her under 24 hour supervision I struggle to think what could have saved her.
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I'm unclear- was she conscious and cognizant when she asked for the black pill? Or still/again in a coma?
 
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