2011-07-25, 02:18 AM
Netto Wrote:Not exactly what I was going for.
Probably should've avoided this thread.
Apparently it was read I was talking about Alzheimer's. I was not. I meant suicide.
Can't comment on how a guy's life is going when I don't anything about him. I think I'm gonna take my leave from this thread.
Everyone who commented knew what you meant and responded accordingly. We aren't responding out of a misunderstanding.
SaptaZapta Wrote:Indeed. One problem with Alzheimer's is that the point at which the person's life becomes not worth living (at least as Pratchett seems to consider it right now, when he is still able to make movies and write books and give interviews) is the point at which they lose the ability to realize that and commit suicide.
Unless his signing the forms now means giving some trusted loved one permission to kill him when the time comes, he will not suicide.
>Starting the process. He is just getting it ready.
He can have someone else finalize it if he gets far enough to where he can't. He may decide to never go through with it.
The Swedish laws for assisted/Doctor enabled suicide are much different than anywhere else in the world.