Slippery-Slope Argument On Assisted Suicide Is Untestable Conjecture
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I FOUND Terry Pratchett's documentary on assisted suicide riveting and not polemical ("'Happy death' shocking and hard to watch", The Herald, June 14, and Letters, June 16 and 17). I have known a number of suicides, and wondered why they were so motivated. These were all people with clinical depression, and in one case where a person had cut his throat, his wife told me she had not the slightest idea of his troubled mind, although she did say he mentioned his black dog, a phrase meaningless to her. There is an important quality in depressive suicides. They do not openly seek assistance for their act.
Depression probably accounts for the great majority of suicides, and the numbers from assisted suicide would still be few, even were that service readily available. The experience of other countries suggests so. We cannot stop depressive suicides from a self- inflicted quietus. All that people like Margo MacDonald are asking is a proxy to do something they would willingly do themselves were they physically able.See the full content of this document
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Slippery-Slope Argument On Assisted Suicide Is Untestable Conjecture
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