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I wrote :
>
>> If intervention is required, and wanted by the terminally
>> ill person, it should be given.
>> 
>> No one is forcing the doctor to help.
>> 
>> If a doctor doesn't want to help, then they shouldn't have to.


To which Jan replied :

>Understood.  However your use of the words "should be given"
>imply an obligation whether coercion is employed or not.
 

>Jan

No it doesn't. There is absolutely no obligation, except
to accept the wishes of the dying, for a doctor to help.

It simply means the we should have the decency
to assume the dying person knows what is best for them.

They have made a decision, and we should respect it.

If the doctor doesn't want to assist, fine, no one is
forcing them to help.


Where do we draw the line here? Do you really want someone 
else deciding how you live and die? Do you really want someone
else to veto your dying wishes? Having made the decision
to die, are you sure you want someone else to come along and
say "no, sorry, I don't want you to die, therefore you will
not?"

I don't.


Iain. 

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