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Assisted suicide with dementia

lundi 26 mars 2018 à 02:00

Proposals to allow assisted suicide only for people that are likely to be dead in 6 months are not adequate for dementia.

Many people suffer from dementia for years, effectively zombies, before some other illness kills the corpse. By the time, six months before the latter, they would be allowed to get help with suicide, they would no longer be competent to invoke that right.