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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep. It could indeed become integrated as it already somehow is, at least over here in Germany: If you are in end of life care the doctors will help you with a lot of medication to painlessly die. In that stage nearly nobody suffers anymore.

Just change the guidelines a little bit, find medical staff who are sympathetic to the cause, and a lot of suffering will be no more.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Apparently it used to be more like that here in the past until a doctor called Harold Shipman helped loads of people die who didn't actually want to die.

It made a lot people uneasy about doctors administering lethal doses of painkillers.