No Slippery Slope Here

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland - A ruling by Switzerland's highest court released Friday has opened up the possibility that people with serious mental illnesses could be helped by doctors to take their own lives.

Switzerland already allows physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients under certain circumstances. The Federal Tribunal's decision puts mental illnesses on the same level as physical ones.

Comments

[scarshapedstar]

We'd better outlaw suicide and make it punishable by death!

[Nurse Ratchet]

“...making life appear unbearable to the patient in the long term," the ruling said.”

“... and (a death wish) which is based on a person of sound judgment's own well-considered and permanent decision, which must be respected," they said.”

The word, “appear”, is completely paradoxical. And equally contradictory is a person of sound judgment does not equal ‘mentally ill’. Nuts.

[Legalize]

"Serious mental illness"? Why should Riehl, Johnson, Malkin, Coulter, Rush, Savage, et al have more rights in Switzerland than in the U.S.?

[Alexandra B]

Mr.Legalize,

That comment smarted so! I declare, the cleverness overwhelms me.

[micah]

Mr. Legalize makes a good point. What if "mental illness" was determined by your political views?

[Legalize]

I'm not surprised, Alexandra.

[Alexandra B]

Well, Micah, if political views were the determinant of mental illness, that might explain Mr. Legalize's intellectual autism. You notice he actually believes I was overwhelmed.