Swiss may expand assisted suicide law

[DeclinetoState]

Fri Feb 2, 7:29 PM ET

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - A ruling by Switzerland's highest court released Friday has opened up the possibility that people with serious mental illnesses could be helped by doctors to take their own lives.

Switzerland already allows physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients under certain circumstances. The Federal Tribunal's decision puts mental illnesses on the same level as physical ones.

"It must be recognized that an incurable, permanent, serious mental disorder can cause similar suffering as a physical (disorder), making life appear unbearable to the patient in the long term," the ruling said.

"If the death wish is based on an autonomous decision which takes all circumstances into account, then a mentally ill person can be prescribed sodium-pentobarbital and thereby assisted in suicide," it added.
Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070203/ap_on_re_eu/switzerland_assisted_suicide_1)

He's mentally ill because he wants to kill himself? Here's a solution: let's help him commit suicide!

[Kathy30]

This law is making its way through the pioneering country of death, the Netherlands. The way it is working is just the way it is supposed to. Those marked for death but are unwilling to be assisted into dying are deemed mentally ill. They are too mentally ill to be allowed to make the decision for assisted suicide and so the government makes that decision for them and they are put to death against their will.

[Wolfcounsel]

Assisted suicide is a cowardly government's way of telling its lowly servants (taxpayers) that they either support the Elite, or they will become expendable.

[DesertFox]

Hey, at this rate they won't have any suicides anymore -- they'll already all be dead!

-- HELP STAMP OUT SUICIDE --

KILL YOUR NEIGHBOR

[DesertFox]

And in no time at all you will have to pay a tax of several thousand dollars before you will be allowed any assistance in offing yourself.