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Originally Posted by Ustwo
You don't, but it means you can legally keep them from commiting suicide. As most suicides are due to depression or other treatable conditions.
If being mentally ill means you are not responsible for a crime, likewise it means you are not responible enough to control your own life.
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If I am dying from lung cancer in the hospital/ nursing home/ or under a visiting nurse's care, in totally unbelievable pain, morphine just doesn't work anymore; the doctors say I have at least 6 more months of this pain and there is nothing they can do; I am mentally ill (by what you are saying) if I want to commit suicide or ask someone to euthanize me? The only productive thing I am doing is running up medical bills in this case.
Excuse me, but when our pets suffer and cannot live a life without pain, do we not most times have a vet put them to sleep? So if I choose to want to die, why should I not be allowed?
Look, the mentally ill suicides are a tad different and can't even be compared. Personally, I believe if someone wants to die let them, I find it pathetic we have to have a law telling people they have to live, I always have. But a vast majority of suicide attempts are cries for help. Those that want to kill themselves and are truly mental, will do it.
Comparing terminally ill, life with dignity situations to those that are temporarily depressed or mentally ill is like comparing Charles Manson to George Patton.