Hi

It seems like Montana has made some progress with laws surrounding euthanasia. Other countries are also revisiting these laws. As far as I know most actions of euthanasia are extended to people with terminal illness where the quality of life is in question and palliative care is no longer sufficient to ease a persons suffering.

My question is this: Should some mental illnesses be considered terminal? If there is a very poor psychiatric prognosis and recovery is not believed to be possible and the quality of life is very poor should a human be afforded compassionate euthanasia for a mental illness? Personally, I think if we had this open approach to death then we would have less suicides and failed-suicides because the topic would be completely open and non-taboo. If a person no longer wished to be alive they could could be compassionately euthanized after a comprehensive evaluation.

Thoughts?