• Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The only reason I can see to be against this is because of religion, as long as safeguards are put in place it should be a non issue. Switzerland has been doing it since 1942

    • GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub
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      1 day ago

      Not only religion. Euthanasia is a very controversial thing in all ways. For example, a person with a terminal disease can decide to do it because of despair and in many countries courts will consider such decision illegitimate but the person would already be dead so it’s a very complicated situation.

    • zante@slrpnk.net
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      3 days ago

      The nub of the matter is that the decision will rest with people who are frequently vulnerable and is guaranteed to attract coercion.