Do we all have a right to choose suicide?
- added July 5, 2008
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- crazykatlady
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When Roger Kusch helped Bettina Schardt kill herself at home on Saturday, the grim, carefully choreographed ritual was like that in many cases of assisted suicide, with one exception.
Ms. Schardt, 79, a retired X-ray technician from the Bavarian city of Würzburg, was neither sick nor dying. She simply did not want to move into a nursing home, and rather than face that prospect, she asked Mr. Kusch, a prominent German campaigner for assisted suicide, for a way out.
Beate Merk, the justice minister of Bavaria, said in an interview. “This woman had nothing wrong other than her fear. He didn’t offer her any other options.”
A former senior government official from Hamburg, Mr. Kusch, 53, said he would help other people like her who decide of their own free will to commit suicide.
Assisted sucide for those physically suffering is one thing but what about if you just don't feel like you have a good quality of life anymore? Would you search out whatever options presented themself to you in order to be fulfilled...even if that meant killing yourself?
Ms. Schardt, 79, a retired X-ray technician from the Bavarian city of Würzburg, was neither sick nor dying. She simply did not want to move into a nursing home, and rather than face that prospect, she asked Mr. Kusch, a prominent German campaigner for assisted suicide, for a way out.
Beate Merk, the justice minister of Bavaria, said in an interview. “This woman had nothing wrong other than her fear. He didn’t offer her any other options.”
A former senior government official from Hamburg, Mr. Kusch, 53, said he would help other people like her who decide of their own free will to commit suicide.
Assisted sucide for those physically suffering is one thing but what about if you just don't feel like you have a good quality of life anymore? Would you search out whatever options presented themself to you in order to be fulfilled...even if that meant killing yourself?
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- crazykatlady
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Fear of leaving the familar is what drives older individuals to feel hopeless and wanting to take their own lives.Nothing was wrong with her she was not sick she just was afraid,But he exploited this fear to feed is own selfish psychotic ways.This pratise is inhuman.The woman could just have talked to a counselor for her fear.
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You have no choice how you come into this world, You should have every right to choose how you exit it.....
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We all have the right to do whatever we want with our own body and mind. Period. No if's and's or but's. This government would like to take all of your rights but this question is not worth asking.
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I agree with Robroy1, I think we should all have the right to decide if and when we want to "leave the party". I don't think the government should have a say in this matter.
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