Here is another response about my post regarding Spain’s upcoming decision to allow ‘death with dignity’.

“Euthanasia should be fully legal, fully agreed. The one nuance: it should be the choice of the patient IMO, and a decision made in fully conscience. A patient not able to grasp the consequences of it should not have euthanasia, ditto with those where a doctor or family member would be making the decision. If the patient however is fully aware of the consequences and makes the choice, who are we to condemn that?

“All we have with us for our entire lives, is life itself. I strongly believe it is nobody else’s and that we have absolute choice over it, including the choice to end it.

“To bypass the question ‘What happens if a person ends up in coma and cannot decide for himself anymore’: it could be made optional that those supporting euthanasia can sign an official document stating in which cases they wish to be euthanised.”

~Garret

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My Friend
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