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Originally Posted by AnotherKD
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ETA: I don't know. If I ever become afflicted with a horrible disease like Lou Gherig's or am a vegetable of some sort, I would wish that someone like him would be available to help me. But that's just me.
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If you read up on him, the problem is not that he advocated one's right to die. The problem is that he repeatedly violated his own stated procedures for doing doctor-assisted suicide in an ethical manner. Not all of his patients were terminal, few were evaluated by a psychiatrist, many had chronic pain, but were not first referred to a pain specialist, etc.