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Originally Posted by Undertoad
You are in the hospital, you are killed.
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You are a vegetable You are conscious
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You said you wanted to live | Murder | Murder |
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|3 |4 |
You said you wanted to die | ??? | Murder* |
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I guess it depends on what you call case #4. If you call it assisted suicide then I guess case #3 is not murder. |
Legally, according to the law I just posted, it is not. A hospital can pull the plug on a patient after 10 days if the patients fall into certain categories. Courts can intervene, but the law gives the presumption of termination rights to the hospital unless the guardian can find someplace else to take the patient. This basically means prove to another hospital that the patient can be financially supported and that they won't be left holding the bag.
You can call it murder. You can also call buckets of fried chicken and real fur murder, but in the eyes of the law, it is not.
Example - The Ten Commandments say 'Thou Shalt Not Kill', and yet we have killing in spite of the Ten Commandments and even killing in support of the Ten Commandments.
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