• Llewellyn@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    In a situation where she is incurable ill and suffering and asks me to kill her.

    • idiomaddict@feddit.de
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      8 months ago

      This man’s wife specifically asked him not to, because he also tried to kill her last year. I was expecting to have more sympathy for the man, but then I read the story. His kid brought him in to confess, which is an unbelievable position to put your kid in.

      I do understand putting someone out of their misery, and I’m not unempathetic towards the grinding horror that is capitalism, but this is an awful thing for other reasons as well.

      • JigglySackles@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        That’s not really a thing in most of the US. Best you can generally get is a “Do Not Resuscitate” order which is used in the event you die on your own and tells them not to do CPR or use an AED or anything else to revive you.