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RE: Legalization depends on how much it is a legal issue

Comment comment by Brandon on 19 December 2006

My point is that there is no need for assisted suicide to be legal for a person to be able to choose to live or die. In other words, why can't they just kill themselves?

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RE: Legalization depends on how much it is a legal issue by Eye.Of.Sage :: NR6

Oh please, you saw what they did to suicidal people. Either they get arrested for disturbing the peace, or they get locked up in a mental institute. In this society, you have no right to kill yourself. Suicide is almost seen as something illegal to do.

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RE: Legalization depends on how much it is a legal issue by gnifyus :: NR7

I think from reading about some of Kevorkian’s cases, some of the people were too debilitated to commit suicide on their own, or wanted a clean painless (and sure) way to have it happen. I think the latter is the most common; the people didn’t want a messy death, and so Kevorkian was able to provide the equipment and/or chemicals (usually carbon monoxide) to ‘get the job done.’

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