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Originally Posted by flstf
You know as I write this I just remembered that my wife and I have an agreement that if either one of us is very ill beyond reasonable hope and hooked up to machines that the other party should unplug them and let them die in peace. Yet I would want anyone who would kill us otherwise to be charged with murder. Maybe I'll rethink this whole thing again, LOL.
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I don't think this poses a problem. Like the popular view of abortion, it is a third party acting on the consent of the affected party. There are legal ways to establish such consent for situations as you describe so as to avoid any problems such as charging the partner with murder.