[wagglebee]

That there can be no ‘right-to-die’ seems to have escaped the thinking of all concerned. Nitschke once suggested that, just as there’s a right enshrined in International Human Rights to ‘freedom of religion’ which implies ‘freedom from religion’, that the UN Human Rights Declaration of a ‘right-to-life’ implies a ‘right-to-die’. This is simply nonsense. How can there be a ‘right’ to something that, by our very existence, will come to us all. Regardless of the rhetoric about ‘at a time of our choosing’, it is still predicated upon a right that does not and cannot exist. It is a house of cards.

This is the crux of the matter; we do not "own" death, death owns us. It is impossible to have a right to something that we cannot avoid even if we want to.

[wagglebee]

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[chesley]

I’ve always thought that if guns were available to everyone, there would be no need to involve doctors in your suicide.