Comments by "Jessica" (@jayjaydubful) on "The horror of ‘assisted dying’ | spiked podcast" video.

  1. Legislation needs to look beyond the individual to the societal impacts & risks. I also would want this option on an individual level but the risks on a macro level are too much. As long as we have basic physical abilities than we can take our own lives without state assistance
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  2. Why not just act as an individual? Why should the state be involved?
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  3. @SpikeyMikey341  its about what are the potential repercussions & thinking those through. Its easy to legalise things but hard to put the lid back on the box. Re abortion, I support the right to abortion in certain (most) situations but it has encouraged a culture of irresponsibility towards contraception & to casual sex. My 15 yeat old's best friend has had two abortions already. Obviously she isn't typical but in their social circle it is being normalised
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  4. I completely understand youlr stance & used to wholly agree. The argument is that it will lead to explicit and implicit coercion so its not as simple as this and I have come to believe that the wider consequences of this would be extremely negative. I am not anti suicide & have my own loose plans for what I'd do in certain circumstances but I don't think that power should be given to the state. I'm sorry about how your partner's death was. It sounds like poor palliative care
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