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Originally Posted by OpenMind
It's a complex issue. Let's say a perfectly healthy young man who had not made provision for an assisted suicide had an accident which left him in an intolerable condition, psychologically, physiologically, intellectually, or otherwise, and unable to communicate by any means. His life would be sustained by any means available as required by law. Let's further compound this and assume his parents are dead, he has no siblings, and is neither married or engaged to be. In other words, he has no one to petition on his behalf.
Can you imagine what it would be like to live the rest of your life like this. At the moment, a hospital has to sustain him if he needs medication. A hospital is not required to sustain a man if he does not require medication.
If he did have even just one family member, then that one person would be morally obliged to nurture him for the rest of his unbearable life.
I respect that this is supposition. Nonetheless, I would not want to have my life sustained if that was me.
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yes unfortunately scenarios like this probably happen ,,, even if the young man has family ,, sometimes depending on circumstances they are asked to make the decision to either carry on sustaining him or to turn off life support,,, the hardest decision for anyone
, I suppose its good to talk about these things to friends and family so they know your feelings
but if you had no family ,, it would be left in hands of doctors i would assume,, and maybe a court?
in this issue though, that you have brought up in your OP ,, it might make things a lot easier and clearer for some people in the future to be able to at least make a decision without worrying about thier loved ones they are leaving behind are going to end up in jail. Thats assuming of course they can afford to do it. The next step,,, a long way off i think is having some sort of facilty in the United Kingdom.