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I don't want anyone I'm close to to die period, but if they are suffering from some incurable disease and it's their will to die without having to suffer longer than needed so be it.   I know this must sound sadistic to a lot of people, but if ROMOS/Roy was suffering from a disease that was eventually going to kill him and he wanted to end his suffering  I would help him  knowing what he has gone through with his brain bleed and cancer in the past.  I expect he would do the same for me if I asked.

I don't have a problem with it.

Depends, depends, depends.  I had a friend who romanticized suicide to the point one was ready to pull the trigger for him.  All of his problems were those associated with youth, temporary, and his eventual death was bad on all he loved. A waste. I'm left angry after 30 years. On the other hand, my sister was dead long before she died and she would have never wanted to be where she ended up......

I know a lot of people are strongly in favour of this, but I just couldn't bring myself to agree with it. Life is a gift, and it's too precious. 

I have had many relatives who have suffered prolonged pre-death lives, and upon seeing what they endured, and knowing that they would have chosen to control their death, and died with dignity, I support it with provisions.  Jack Kevorkian was a Dr. who should have been celebrated, and supported, I feel. 

As you know we recently lost our much loved daughter.She had suffered terribly for the past 20 years & this is a subject which was discusse on a couple of occasions.Not wheether we would assist but would she prefer to end the suffering.It was a question that was never answered & was eventualy taken out of our hand anyway.But I do think that if Susan were able to ask me to assist I would have had great difficulty & heartache but probably would have complied & somehow lived with it for the remainder of my life.There is no Black & white to this question Julie.It's all grey.There are too many differing circumstances to consider.When you love someone with every fibre of your body & soul you don't want to say good bye & yet you can't stand to see them suffer either.

Thank you all for your well thought out answers. They all made sense.

Tough question. There are 100's of millions of kids 16 and under in China and India alone!