Should people on the registry be allowed access to euthanasia?

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I was thinking about this earlier. And it seems there's no good argument for prohibiting it. If someone on the registry wants to die, most of society probably wants them to die, too. They've already completed their sentence, so despite facing punishment after punishment, they're not escaping any part of their sentence. They're merely opting to die with dignity.

Obviously mental health is a complicating factor, but in jurisdictions with euthanasia, persistent mental health conditions are considered reason enough to grant a request to die.

Having the option of escaping the cruelty of the registry, without having to pull the trigger yourself, dying in a dignified, properly planned way, seems to be a positive.


To go even darker (though this isn't in the poll), what about pedophiles more generally, including those that have never committed an offense?

[Outis]

I voted no because being on the registry is a discomfort with impacts but hardly the same as being in pain from a terminal illness which is the only scenario being considered for euthanasia. If it was allowed for people on the registry then it could be allowed for people in poverty which deprives access to some benefits, disabled people and many other groups. Given the choice of being on the registry or having a really impactful mental or physical disability I'd choose the registry. The registry is an obstacle to success and happiness but everyone has obstacles, some smaller, som bigger, the important thing is to overcome them and even use them as drivers to success and happiness.

Society wants you to suffer? Then be happy and succeed, that's the best way to show society the middle finger.

The police want to make your life unhappy? Be successful and smile that they're eeking a living on a crap wage with little gratitude.

Moon the world, repeat a daily mantra that you will be successful and happy, make small steps towards happiness and when you're over the hurdle then feel the sense of achievement. Can't get a job because you're on a register? Go self employed, do something really enjoyable, study, do something better.

[PorcelainLark]

Absolutely not. Partially for the same reason you restrict it in the case of the elderly: external pressure to make use of it. If it was legal, there's no doubt in my mind that there would be people who would prefer to live longer opt for it because of feeling like a burden on their family. Similar with people with disabilities. Or any "undesirable" element of society; homeless people, transgender people, etc. In practice, it becomes a defense of eugenics. I'd never be able to accept that in good conscience.

Also consider the effects on the medical system. You are allowing death to be permitted under the Hippocratic oath. That legitimizes the way those "Angels of Death" type killers think. It's opening Pandora's box to say death is compatible with the principle "First do no harm."

The suffering people experience as a result of being MAPs is wrong, pressuring them to die on top of it is another layer of wrong. Two wrongs don't make a right. We shouldn't make injustice any easier than it already is.

[BLueRibbon]

Antis should definitely have access!

[Bookshelf]

Biggest concern would be that it could incentivize pressure to make the lives of those living on the registry worse. It'd be like a member of the KKK tormenting a black family, then offering a gun as an 'easy way out' of the suffering. The same people that would want us to use it are the people that want to put us on the registry in the first place. It'd be impossible to implement in a reasonable, fair and dignified way for that reason.

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It seems the result of not allowing a legal path to dignified death is that people will instead be found hanging from a light fitting instead.

Give me the needle, chosen willingly, surrounded by friends and family.