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Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby
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.
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True. However, he really did spark the assisted suicide debate, and it's still raging. I do believe in a person's choice to do what they wish, and if the choice of getting someone to help me when I believed that there was no other way, then that is my belief.