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Bill: Anarch Anakrousite Reform Bill - Right to Die
Details
Submitted by[?]: Commonwealth Workers Army
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 2108
Description[?]:
| The Anarch Anakrousite representative has been petitioned, requesting that the issue of VOLUNTARY euthanasia be re-opened. Many Likatonians seem to feel that the government doesn't have the right to tell them HOW they are allowed to die, especially when they are terminal cases and/or in great pain. The AAP argues that QUALITY of life SHOULD be allowed, under the right circumstances, to outweight the QUANTITY of life. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right to euthanasia.
Old value:: Euthanasia is illegal and considered murder.
Current: Euthanasia is allowed with consent from the patient and the treating doctor.
Proposed: Euthanasia is allowed with consent from the patient and the treating doctor.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:35:51, September 07, 2005 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Anarch Anakrousite Reform Bill - Right to Die |
| Message | The RKP is in full support of this measure which gives another important right back to the people, from whom all government springs. |
| Date | 13:55:51, September 07, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Party for Equality | To | Debating the Anarch Anakrousite Reform Bill - Right to Die |
| Message | LPE is also strongly in favour. However, it should not be put forward as an option regularly, but only used in speecial cases where the patient specifically, and of their own accord, requests to die, and can be proved to be in full possession of their mental capabilities. The problem is, if it becomes standard practice, old infirm people will feel that they owe it to those on whom they have become a burden (usually family) to die when looking after them becomes difficult. |
| Date | 14:56:15, September 09, 2005 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Anarch Anakrousite Reform Bill - Right to Die |
| Message | Response to the LPE: I think it is implicit in the doctor/patient agreement, that the patient must be of sound mind, and that the doctor must beleive that the decision is genuine - not some leveraged decision based on familial perceived obligations - but on a genuine suffering. Thank you for the support of the LPE, and thanks also to RLP. |
| Date | 17:31:21, September 09, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the Anarch Anakrousite Reform Bill - Right to Die |
| Message | Phrr, no. Suicide should not be legalised, even in the case of patients suffering from long term illness. People suffering from these conditions have been known to recover. Plus whats the point in legalising euthenasia. If Likatonians commit suicide, they are hardly going to be put on trial for it. |
| Date | 17:51:32, September 09, 2005 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Anarch Anakrousite Reform Bill - Right to Die |
| Message | The point in legalizing euthenasia is that if a physuician assists a patient in ending an intolorable situation, he will not be prosecuted for doing so. People must have the right to decide when is too much, and to be able to assist in ending pain by whatever means deemed appropiate by the patient and doctor. |
| Date | 18:41:05, September 09, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Party for Equality | To | Debating the Anarch Anakrousite Reform Bill - Right to Die |
| Message | "If Likatonians commit suicide, they are hardly going to be put on trial for it." sometimes you can't commit suicide if you are very weak - you need somebody to help you. |
| Date | 19:14:23, September 09, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the Anarch Anakrousite Reform Bill - Right to Die |
| Message | But this will simply open the floodgates, if we allow citizens to commit suicide because they are terminally ill, then how can we justify preventing people commtting suicide because they are depressed? |
| Date | 20:31:52, September 09, 2005 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Anarch Anakrousite Reform Bill - Right to Die |
| Message | If we feel we have that right, a series of psychological tests could be instituted to prevent anyone not of sound mind from participation in this. |
| Date | 12:33:43, September 10, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the Anarch Anakrousite Reform Bill - Right to Die |
| Message | So how would someone who is mentally ill pass this test? If they make a prior arrangement in a will, perhaps their viewpoint would have changed and we would not be able to take account of this. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 122 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 59 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 26 |
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| Random quote: "Poetry is about the grief; politics is about the grievance." - Robert Frost |