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Originally Posted by DivideByZero
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?
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I see the equivalent of Catch-22 looming here. If someone is ill enough mentally that they want to die, who's going to rule that despite being obviously dangerous to themselves, they're nevertheless sane enough to make life-or-death choices?
I know --
Let's treat them till they don't want to die any more and
then let them choose!