One scenario is ceasing to support a self destructive body which will cease to function in the short term.
The other is to become the immediate cause of death to a body which is not in the same state.
Or once more:
Death occurs when you cease to interfere
Death occurs because you interfered
I'm not inclined to change my view on that. I would also say it covers your "abuse" angle which is interesting since you put quotation marks around a word I didn't use.
And finally why is this merged with the kids thread. I saw two people posting about the kid in this separate thread because they can't read and now it's merged so we have a bizzare interjection of when we consider killing people ok.
Yeah wtf with merging threads when it was nothing to do with Alfie and was about the right to choose when one dies, seems the mod had as much reading comprehension as the other morons making it about Alfie
The thing you're missing is that it's specific to debilitating incurable conditions, if I get a cancer that is incurable and will ultimately have my body destroy itself and cease to function what difference should it make if I die while my body is still functioning or when it stops functioning
Why must we force the person to endure having to go through their body progressively shutting down in order to euthanise them by depriving them of life supporting methods ?
Do you not think that it is at all a little ****** up in that in order for us to euthanise them we must make them first reach a point that euthanising is merely the act of doing nothing ?
I mean I get it, if you don't want that choice fine you can go through the normal methods of prolonging your suffering in order to get a "fair" death, however I and a great many others would prefer to choose when we die if we ever get a soul/life destroying illness
Turning off life support is not euthanasia under English law in any way.
Euthanasia is actively ending life. Turning off life support is to no longer actively prevent death. There is a very large difference.
It's semantics though and a pretty weak argument to say that doing nothing is okay while doing something is not
If life support is the only thing keeping you alive and someone turns it off they are ending your life, they are making a decision to end you it is effectively euthanasia
If you were on life support and one of your family members turned it off without consulting anyone, they would have murdered you and would be charged for it
So it's either no longer actively preventing death or it's a method to kill someone, it cannot be both because they are at conflict with one another
