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GreenStormCloud

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5. Why is a doctor needed to assist?

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 10:15 AM

Oct 2013

I firmly believe in the right of a person to end their life when they choose to do so. I just don't understand the need for a doctor to participate.

If I should develop a painful, fatal illness that I want to terminate early, that is easy to do. Buy a bottle of nitrogen gas, hook up a tube from the bottle to a face mask, put on mask, turn on the nitrogen, in a few minutes you are gone, completely painless, no doctor needed.

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Doctor-assisted suicide ban to be appealed in B.C. [View all] alp227 Oct 2013 OP

k&r Hope they win. idwiyo Oct 2013 #1

Me too davidpdx Oct 2013 #2

Even as a child in the 80s when Dr. Kevorkian was going at it I never understood why it was illegal Victor_c3 Oct 2013 #3

My father died in 2009 from HIV. moriah Oct 2013 #4

Why is a doctor needed to assist? GreenStormCloud Oct 2013 #5

Because many who would opt for it are either too ill u4ic Oct 2013 #6

Breathing pure nitrogen is 100% effective. No perscription needed, no doctor needed. N/T GreenStormCloud Oct 2013 #7

Read my post again u4ic Oct 2013 #8

What complexities that require a doctor? GreenStormCloud Oct 2013 #9

Just that not everyone can do it by themselves, that's all. I don't think the point is any more nomorenomore08 Nov 2013 #10

So it requires an MD to buy nitrogen and rig a mask? GreenStormCloud Nov 2013 #11

family members do not want to be part of that wordpix Nov 2013 #17

Can you read? u4ic Nov 2013 #12

Can YOU read? GreenStormCloud Nov 2013 #13

You just answered my question: u4ic Nov 2013 #14

Actually, I was thinking it would work something like this: GreenStormCloud Nov 2013 #15

First of all, we're discussing Canada u4ic Nov 2013 #16

good point about the pets - I couldn't have hastened my cat's death myself even though wordpix Nov 2013 #18