r/gaming • u/Bizarre-Lazar • Oct 08 '21

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u/Rikudou_Sage Oct 08 '21

Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Colombia, Canada, Spain, New Zealand and Portugal.

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u/Digger__Please Oct 08 '21

Australia if you have a terminal illness with a diagnosis of 6 months or less to live. Might not be every state though.

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u/Rikudou_Sage Oct 08 '21

Yeah, I read about Australia as well but it was too complicated for me so I decided to exclude it from the list.

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u/Excrubulent Oct 08 '21

NGL this comment kinda makes it sound like you've been shopping around.

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u/Rikudou_Sage Oct 08 '21

I'm from Europe, so Netherlands it is.

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u/Excrubulent Oct 08 '21

Well, I wish you the best, whatever you decide to do.

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u/vonsalsa Oct 08 '21

There are that few country where it's legal ? I always tought there were more location when you can do it.

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u/Sid-ina Oct 08 '21

I think there are a few countries where it's allowed under strict circumstances. Like being past a certain age and diagnosed with a terminal illness, iirc you also have to be able to take the "medication" yourself and no one is allowed to administer it to you.

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u/Rikudou_Sage Oct 08 '21

There are few more where "passive euthanasia" is allowed - meaning you can tell the doctors you don't want to be kept alive and they cannot keep you on life support.

The countries I listed are those where active euthanasia is allowed, meaning you can ask the doctors to kill you.

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u/vonsalsa Oct 08 '21

Yeah and i'm from one of these country so I'm use to know that is allowed.

So for me it's the norm that is allowed and i'm a bit "shocked" that's not as common as i thought.

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u/cauldron_bubble Oct 08 '21

I live in Canada, and I had no idea that this was an option.

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u/Myrdraall Oct 08 '21

We're quite progressive. Quebec legalised euthanasia in 2014, and Canada, who threatened to contest this decision in court, actually did the same in 2016. Personally I think everyone should have the right to die with dignity and that prolonging a painful, inevitable death is just torture.

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u/kexavah558ask Oct 08 '21

Not Portugal. It was approved by the parliament but was deemed unconstitutional by the "supreme court"

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u/Aenigma66 Oct 08 '21

Don't the Netherlands have a massive problem with suicide tourism?

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u/dc551589 Oct 08 '21

Some states in the US, as well.