What are your thoughts on assisted suicide?

Hi meesaclaire, I live just over the water from you. The assisted suicide bill has been passed in Victoria starting mid this year, there are strict conditions, but those conditions seem to be almost the same as the one about to go through your parliament.

I think this bill is a step forward towards people having control over how they wish to end their lives. I'm just surprised Australia has done something before NZ, you guys are normally the front runners as Aus. watches and learns from you

I think this topic is nonsense. And that's the reason why:


www.schloss-hartheim.at/index.php/en/historic-place/killing-facility-hartheim-1940-1944


In the early 1940-ies Nazis killed thousands of physically and mentally ill persons calling it euthanasia. There are also statistics about what the German Reich would save on social costs through these murders. Google "Hartheim statistics" for further information, e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartheim_Euthanasia_Centre is a good link to start research.


I do not understand why some governments repeatedly pick up on the topic assisted suicide. In my opinion self-determined life looks different.

Be careful and do not let yourself be instrumentalized when the government wants to withdraw from responsibility.

Maybe this discussion should be continued in a forum for depression.

The discussion about self-determined life and death has a very long history. I just want to point out that there could possibly be a conflict of interest between politics and the people affected.

Incidentally, I thought that this forum would dedicate itself to self-determined life previously. This thread drifted into the opposite.

The hippocratic oath says do no harm.

If all that is left is pain suffering and degradation then doing nothing is doing harm.