Originally posted by Cloviewell, complications are bound to arise, but I'm sure that woman's case was the exception not the norm. I'm confident there will always be enough people willing to perform euthanasia to make a system work. moreover, people who aren't medical personell are usually able to assist others in ending their lives. A system in which tightly controlled sale of lethal doses of morphine with proper documentation, psychiatric evaluation, video recording, witnesses, etc. are used to let someone end it at home surrounded by family and friends could be set up today.
dunno. but if it would be like with abortion it wouldn't be that clear.
here there are some situations when abortion is legal, and it is possible only untill some age of foetus/baby [I on't remember at the moment, but that' irrelevant].
so there was some woman and she was legally allowed to get aborted. but doctors were legally allowed to refuse. she didn't find anyone willing before the time of possible treatment ended. so she gave birth to a child, and because of some complications she got blind or slmost blind during the labour.in the end she sued a country to strassbourg tribunal (sp?) and as far as i know, she won.
so what if situation with euthanasia goes the same way?