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France mulls 'accelerated deaths'

Published: 18 Dec 2012 at 22.44
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France should allow doctors to "accelerate the coming of death'' for terminally ill patients, a report to President Francois Hollande recommended Tuesday.

Hollande referred the report to a national council on medical ethics which will examine the precise circumstances under which such steps could be authorised with a view to producing draft legislation by June 2013.

"The existing legislation does not meet the legitimate concerns expressed by people who are gravely and incurably ill,'' Hollande said.

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dekwat
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Discussion 3 : 19 Dec 2012 at 08.003
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Benjamin Disc2: Terminally ill people also have their own beliefs and faith. They aren't necessarily the same as yours. Why don't you let them decide for themselves?
A lot of people are lying in hospitals, agonizing and waiting for the most natural of all things: "Death". Keeping these people alive through the use of drugs and other medical means much less natural. It only prolongs the agony and delay the inevitable.
Terminally ill people should be given the option of dying with dignity.
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Discussion 2 : 19 Dec 2012 at 06.392
The French president wants to allow medical procreation of children by homosexual couples. Now he wants to allow doctors to kills their patient. What's next? Allow animal to procreate with humans? It's all against nature, it's all decided with no referendum, while all those questions are highly sensitive and are obviously hurting the majority's beliefs and faith, and deep cultural values. It's called being a sorcerer apprentice.
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Discussion 1 : 19 Dec 2012 at 00.161
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It's better than nothing, but if human beings are autonomous agents, how can they not have the right to request that a doctor actively kill them?

Keeping people alive against their express wishes is morally indefensible, being nothing less than treating those who wish to die as the playthings of the warped ideologies of those who like to play such nasty games with other people's lives and welfare.
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