On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 7:31 AM Lawrence Crowell < [email protected]> wrote:
*> The only way I could support something like this in USA is if there is a > single payer healthcare system. * A single payer healthcare system is probably a good idea, it's worked well in other countries, but it has little to do with euthanasia. > > I can well imagine there will be insurance weasels pressuring family > members to "terminate" a patient the company finds too expensive to pay for. I think it's illogical to worry about hypothetical problems that leagal euthanasia might cause while at the same time ignoring the very real non-hypothetical horror that outlawing euthanasia has caused; in the USA terminal cancer patients are limited on how much pain medication they can get because for some bizarre reason doctors are worried about them becoming addicted. And sure, if it was legal patients might sometimes make the wrong decision, but at least it would be their decision and not the decision of the government, after all it's their life not the government's. Using force to make somebody live when they want to die is as immoral as using force to make somebody die when they want to live. John K Clark > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1q8CVDuQ-eJhaeySK1Jwq9zfc-s0i1LG3FKnQgb0-kxQ%40mail.gmail.com.
