28-Year-Old Dutch Woman to Legally End Her Life in May.
A Dutch woman has decided to legally end her life citing her struggles with crippling depression and autism, according to a report. Zoraya ter Beek, a 28-year-old physically healthy, who lives in a small village in the Netherlands near the German border, is slated to be euthanised in May, according to the New York Post (NYP).
The Dutch woman said she decided to be euthanised after her doctors told her nothing more could be done to improve her condition.
Didn’t we use to try to prevent people who were depressed from committing suicide?
The World has turned into a Monty Python skit.
Better to fight than accept death certainly but death should always be an option on the table for those who are done fighting. Every soldier retires eventually.
Unstable on the scale of nations means within 100 years or so. So sure, potentially within our lifetimes capitalism will go away but its fair to say it won’t be within 10 years. Why? Because socialism is still wildly unpopular. We at least need people to be willing to accept our presence in daily life but even that isn’t gonna happen. If a communist revolution took over the government a good 75% of my country would be fully counter revolutionary, maybe 20% neutral, and the rest would view it as an improvement (not necessarily support, but at least think its a better direction than the past, less than 1% would actually support the new government). It’ll take a century shoved into a week before people here actually fight. Maybe your country is closer to revolution and if so I’m happy for you and hope it succeeds.
Sure, but if they chose to enter that state on their own volition I see no reason to inhibit them.
We have no way of knowing that.
Yeah, now.
“During a revolution, millions and tens of millions of people learn in a week more than they do in a year of ordinary, somnolent life. For at the time of a sharp turn in the life of an entire people it becomes particularly clear what aims the various classes of the people are pursuing, what strength they possess, and what methods they use.” https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/sep/06.htm
People can change their minds rather quickly.
In the American revolution, 1/3 of the people wanted it, 1/3 were against it and 1/3 didn’t care either way. At least that’s what I remember reading in Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. You don’t need 100% (or the majority) of the people to be on our side at the start of the revolution.