The Dutch have gone completely nuts. They have started killing rape victims because it’s such a drag to have to treat them. A woman in her 20s was given a lethal injection in the Netherlands because it was decided that there was no way to help her overcome the trauma of childhood sexual abuse and it was easier to kill her off.
It’s curious that Netherlands is adamantly opposed to capital punishment for anybody, including rapists, but gladly execute rapists’ victims. With the erosion of the European welfare state, it will become increasingly convenient to get rid of people requiring mental health care by gently guiding them towards death. This is also a convenient way of unburdening the system of public medical care.
I support euthanasia for people in the very last stages of terminal illnesses who will die within the next couple of weeks. But killing off healthy 20-year-olds is beyond immoral.
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“Euthanasia” (or whatever euphemism you call it) as a treatment for psychiatric disorders is beneath contempt.
All laws–whether for euthanasia, abortion rights, gun control, you name it–are slippery slopes, but civilized societies are expected to know when to draw lines.
Totally disgusting!
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This is coming dangerously close to the Nazi belief that mentally ill people had to be eliminated. 😦
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I’m confused as to why the state is involved in her suicide. Did her particular mental condition that made her suicidal render her unable to kill herself? Did she want to guarantee her own death in the absence of ready access to firearms?
This is so sad. This feels ripe for political abuse.
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Because the girl didn’t act alone. This was “medically-assisted euthanasia,” which without relevant laws would have been considered murder on the part of the doctors who enabled it.
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I get the definition of euthanasia. I guess a better question is: why did the woman involve doctors and the state in her suicide and why did they even entertain it if she was physically capable of ending her own life?
I’ve always understood euthanasia to be doctor assisted suicide specifically for the purposes of ending the life of someone who wants to die but is physically unable to do so. It’s not supposed to be for people who say “I would like to kill myself but I’m going to fuck it up royally and leave a mess.”
I can’t think of how many people I know who would be dead if they could’ve just called up a state euthanasia panel at one point in their lives and said, “Kill me, I have irrevocable & incurable mental agony.”
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I’m shocked, too, because my understanding of euthanasia was the same as yours.
People who kill themselves, people who try but fail to kill themselves, and people who say they want to kill themselves are all completely different groups of people with very different psychological problems. Killing somebody who talks about suicide is murder, pure and simple.
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What does it do to a person to kill someone who is suicidal, assuming that person has a conscience? When these debates flare up, nobody ever talks about that.
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“What does it do to a person to kill someone who is suicidal, assuming that person has a conscience?”
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I have wondered about this since my mother always asked for help with it. I always said I would not do it but would accompany her to Holland or somewhere like that to get it done if she really wanted it. At which point she would say no. But I always felt as though I had killed her anyway, so it is unclear to me whether I would feel any worse if I actually had done this.
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With all due respect, she shouldn’t have put that burden on you, not even hypothetically. A parent should remain a parent at any age, in my opinion.
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The odds are that this girl would never have committed suicide if she’d had to do it on her own. It takes a lot of psychological energy to actually go through with the act of self-murder, and (fortunately) the vast majority of people who have suicidal thoughts never act on them.
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I am told that people who do it actually do it when they start to feel better, because only then can they summon the energy and focus to act. Having a method easily at hand would help.
I always thought I could most easily kill myself with a car — crash it. I feared I might do this inadvertently, fulfill an unconscious wish. I have been known to do things like walk to work, cancel trips or take alternative forms of transportation specifically because of this.
I learned it was actually not a good method once when I narrowly avoided getting into one of those freeway pile-ups, in the fog — I saw what was ahead of me, and was able to brake soon enough so that I stopped before hitting the car in front of me. It was so close, it let me see what the experience of dying in a car crash really would be like and I never thought of it again — actually never thought of suicide again at all, it is funny.
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“The odds are that this girl would never have committed suicide if she’d had to do it on her own. It takes a lot of psychological energy to actually go through with the act of self-murder, and (fortunately) the vast majority of people who have suicidal thoughts never act on them.”
Exactly. It’s deranged to kill people who talk about suicide precisely for these reasons.
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@above — right, parents should not do that, but some who are not well, do it.
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I sit here dumbfounded that this is actually real…
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