You may not want to read this...

Skybird · 04-16-18, 05:23 AM

... at least not now, while you think you live forever. Well - you will live forever, right?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b03e2a5c7853ca

I expect this to be a controversial issue in public debate, and I wonder what Australian law has to say about this. If it is true like the author describes it, I tend to be positive about the outlook to have access to such a machine. Not now, but once I feel the time has come. Because what he says about hospitals is true, and his quote "I have found myself at the pointy end of the right-to-die debate.If we are talking about a “good death,” referred to by the Greeks as euthanasia, then why isn’t this the goal for all of us? Why do you have to be terminally ill (i.e., almost dead) to die with dignity? " I found to be the key sentence in it all.

If you think you belong to the camp that says "Living as long as possible, no matter the cost to me or my social circle", I recommend you work for just one or two weeks in a gerontopsychiatric institution. If this does not heal you, then even hell will not scare you.

The only critical thing that needs to be closely taken care of, is the danger of profit-oriented commerzialisation. This has to be safeguarded against in any way that is proper and adequate to guarantee that this does not happen.

Like with so many laws that turn citizens into property and de facto milking cows of the state and its commanding fat cats, I principally object to any claim that states or institutions have any right to sentence people to life against their will. This is an authoritarian arrogation that oversteps the red line towards violating basic human rights. And what soembody personally holds in faiths and beliefs can only be the imperative for his own decision making, he cannot claim by that that he has the right to force others.

One day we all face this one moment that will be our last. The question is in what inner attitude, whether with or without countenance, we face it: screaming, pedaling or hysterically struggling, or - well, differently. The answer necessarily is always most intimate - except where our social environment uses force to deny us the choice to be ours. In this case we still die, but then as a victim of a crime.

Jimbuna · 04-16-18, 05:33 AM

No thanks, I'll let nature take its course.

04-16-18, 05:23 AM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,602 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	You may not want to read this... ... at least not now, while you think you live forever. Well - you will live forever, right? https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b03e2a5c7853ca I expect this to be a controversial issue in public debate, and I wonder what Australian law has to say about this. If it is true like the author describes it, I tend to be positive about the outlook to have access to such a machine. Not now, but once I feel the time has come. Because what he says about hospitals is true, and his quote "I have found myself at the pointy end of the right-to-die debate.If we are talking about a “good death,” referred to by the Greeks as euthanasia, then why isn’t this the goal for all of us? Why do you have to be terminally ill (i.e., almost dead) to die with dignity? " I found to be the key sentence in it all. If you think you belong to the camp that says "Living as long as possible, no matter the cost to me or my social circle", I recommend you work for just one or two weeks in a gerontopsychiatric institution. If this does not heal you, then even hell will not scare you. The only critical thing that needs to be closely taken care of, is the danger of profit-oriented commerzialisation. This has to be safeguarded against in any way that is proper and adequate to guarantee that this does not happen. Like with so many laws that turn citizens into property and de facto milking cows of the state and its commanding fat cats, I principally object to any claim that states or institutions have any right to sentence people to life against their will. This is an authoritarian arrogation that oversteps the red line towards violating basic human rights. And what soembody personally holds in faiths and beliefs can only be the imperative for his own decision making, he cannot claim by that that he has the right to force others. One day we all face this one moment that will be our last. The question is in what inner attitude, whether with or without countenance, we face it: screaming, pedaling or hysterically struggling, or - well, differently. The answer necessarily is always most intimate - except where our social environment uses force to deny us the choice to be ours. In this case we still die, but then as a victim of a crime. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

04-16-18, 05:33 AM	#2
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,461 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	No thanks, I'll let nature take its course. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!