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by 1123581321 1270 days ago
You need to look at this from multiple aspects: the ability to make the "right" choice in an individual's case, factoring in all ethical, medical, social and financial forces and beneficiaries involved. The policy from an aggregate level, factoring in the same at an aggregate level. To make these decisions, you do need to periodically step outside the decision-making process and see it with fresh eyes, which is what I and the other user were attempting to prompt by inviting you to think about the similarity to state-administered violence in a legal system.

You are definitely entrenched within an intentionally limited set of inputs similar to what the MAID process has devolved to in some circumstances, sorry. In your current position, you would not be in a position to fully and most beneficially evaluate the decision to end life, whether as an individual, family member, physician or policymaker.

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Again, you can rest assured that nobody's asking me my opinion on whether other people's lives should be ended, and I'm not looking to end mine, either.

And fortunately, given how these processes are set up, nobody will ask you, either. You win some, you lose some.