Why I Believe In Voluntary Euthanasia
There are at least two forms of suicide. One is
'emotional suicide', or irrational self-murder in all of it
complexities and sadness. Let me emphasis at once that my view of
this tragic form of self-destruction is the same as that of the
suicide intervention movement and the rest of society, which is
to prevent it wherever possible. I do not support any form of
suicide for mental health or emotional reasons.
But I do say that there is a second form of suicide --
justifiable suicide, that is, rational and planned self-
deliverance from a painful and hopeless disease which will
shortly end in death. I don't think the word 'suicide' sits well
in this context but we are stuck wit
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