Why I Believe In Voluntary Euthanasia
Beginning of paper
There are at least two forms of suicide. One is 'emotional suicide',
or irrational self-murder in all of it complexities and sadness. Let me
emphasis at once that my view of this tragic form of self-destruction is
the same as that of the suicide intervention movement and the rest of
society, which ....
Middle of paper
.... not know it that suicide is
no longer a crime anywhere in the English-speaking world. (It used to be,
and was punishable by giving all the dead person's money and goods to the
government.) Attempted suicide is no longer a crime, although under health
laws a person can in most states be forcibly placed in a psychiatric
hospital for three days for evaluation.
But giving assistance in suicide remains a crime, except in the
Netherlands in recent times under certain conditions, and it has ....
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