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Originally Posted by Ghia5L
If the legislation was well-written and exhaustive in its measures, the risk of inappropriate instances of euthanasia would be an an absolute minimum, therefore releasing thousands if not millions from undue suffering.
When (not if) I turn into my grandparents, with their drawn-out dementia/alzheimers fates, I would NOT want to live for a further decade in which I lose everyone I know, and lose all of my dignity, and merely exist.
This existence is a real thing in today's nursing homes; governed by legal state-sanctioned medical practices of keeping people alive.
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I understand what you are saying Ghia5L but the realities of such legislation are not being debated or exposed. There are going to be unseen huge pitfalls, as with any major societal impacting act of legislation. The argument so far is based purely on emotions, not real impacts or consequences...