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I can agree with it for elderly people and/or people with a sever chronic condition who have little to keep suffering for. But for younger people with "fixable" problem I would hope we first male sure they get all the support they could need and want before euthanasia becomes an option. I know we aren't anywhere close pretty much anywhere in the world, but in the interim until we get there? I don't know, be angry at politicians and voters until they stop gutting public health care maybe.
Okay, yes, let's make sure that help is available if they want it. But what if they don't? Should a suicidal person be forced to accept help that they don't want?
Moreover, if you forbid people from ending their own life at their own discretion, who really has ownership over their body?
My problem is capitalism. Will it get fixed in my life? No.
Sometimes the "temporary problem" is temporary in the sense that your life is temporary. One permanent solution please!