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Good. The right to a dignified end of life should not be infringed when the conditions of living are unbearable.
Those who want some people to sit around and suffer, to not be able to participate in anything, to be a high maintenance ornament in someone's life, because they feel it's morally incorrect to give someone peace, need to get their heads checked and their morals examined pronto.
Forcing someone other than yourself to suffer because of your morals is sociopathic. You don't live that life, so you don't get to decide. You already have your own priveliged life to decide over. It's not your right to decide what other people do with theirs, even if you're close family. If a person is of sound mind and wants to start that long, beurocratic laden process, then so be it.
There should be barrier to entry, but not a complete ban.
The thing is, it can and will be abused either way it goes, and keeping people alive has more benefit so far than killing them or letting them die...
That's the same thinking that allows governments to justify poking holes in cryptography, only in reverse. "Oh we have to catch the terrorists and the PDF files." Oh yeah? What about the journalists, the political dissidents, the leakers? All swept under the same rug.
Saying that some people who will abuse the privelige is kind of wild though. Imagine going through the process for what, 4 years.. 6 years, if getting a dignified end in the Netherlands, being constantly monitored by psychiatrists and talking with family members, as if it's as easy as getting a smoke.
In fact, that's a great episode idea for South Park. Cartman disappears for a few years and we only get glimpses of him facetiming the boys from the Netherlands, because he's ¼ Dutch (half the broncos have Dutch family lines) - and Cartman absolutely hates the Dutch. After 2 years, he gets bored and comes home.
So you are in favour of banning cars, guns, alcohol, knives, hammers, axes, all the strong painkillers, rope, and all the other things I can think of that have been abused causing death?