LINK David Goodall: 104-year-old scientist to end own life in Switzerland | Australia news | The Guardian
I’m glad he had the resources to travel to Switzerland to do this. I don’t think he should have had to though. I’d love to wage a legal battle to open up California’s right-to-die laws.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Right to die? ever hear of a bottle of sleeping pills and a bottle of whiskey? Easy to kill yourself painlessly
gater
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May 13, 2018
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Good point, but people shouldn’t have to resort to that.
@SurvivorSteph Resort? - you fall asleep and die, painlessly
I live in Australia and we have just got threw in on of the state that you can end your own life, but only if you have and illness and will die withing 6 months. Nobody's business if I want to end it, I think.
Jolanta
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May 13, 2018
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That’s the law in California too, with the addition that you must be cognitively intact. Which is a huge letdown for those with Alzheimer’s and similar ailments. Personally, I think we should be able to add a clause to our advanced healthcare directives which gives explicit instructions to terminate at a certain point of mental incapacity.
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