<div class="gmail_quote">On 27 December 2011 23:21, Ben Zaiboc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bbenzai@yahoo.com">bbenzai@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
What is definitely, and non-negotiably, NOT ok, is to be forced to die if you don't want to.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>Yes, but while we are working at it, it is also NOT ok to be forced to live if you don't want do (and this basic freedom would of course become even more fundamental if and when we were to enjoy undefinite lifespans...).<br>
<br>As to the requirements for being allowed assisted suicide, to go on with this ending the year on a merry note :-) , I maintain that the only justification for any such requirement should be an obvious concern for the verification as reliable and accurate as possible of the actual party's will, given the obvious finality of the procedure (the argument is more or less the same as that regarding the difficulty of satisfactorily correcting judicial mistakes when the execution of the wrongly convicted defendant has been carried out...).<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>