In Germany, spate of deaths fuels row on assisted suicide

Everyone should have the right to die when they want as life can be an unbearable torture.

If you support forcing others to live against their own will I seriously hope you will be dying for years in agony so that you can experience first hand how pathetic and shortsighted your position is.

to "superhuman", Hear Hear!!...

It is unbelievable that "responsible" adults can advocate forcing someone to be subject to gradual-murder by a condition like Huntingtons, while claiming "morality".

( note: whether some experience is "murder"-nature or not, is primarily up to the individual who is subject to it, /not primarily/ up to others.

Secondarily, it's up to others.

E.g. if A kills B, and B didn't want to be destroyed, then from B's side it's murder, no matter what A felt about it.

if B was being tortured to death, whether by a "major illness" or by some monster or mental-defective, and was begging to be given release from that gradual-murder, then A killing B might /not/, from B's perspective, be murder, though A might /feel/ it to have been murder, or not, depending on their inner constitution.

What's comically dishonest about the "morality" argument?

Ask those who've *lived in*
Huntington's,
Progressive Multiple Sclerosis,
schizophrenia,
a red-back bite ( if the stories I've heard about the consequences of that arachnid's bite are true -- that it causes one's body to progressively destroy itself, imprisoning the person in agony, while their limbs are amputated to keep 'em alive... ), etc, and you'll get an answer that is:
"suicide, controlling one's OWN life & death, is a RIGHT".

Ask, however, those who have NO EQUIVALENT EXPERIENCE, whether those who are IN that experience have the right, and you'll get:
"well, I don't experience that, but *they* don't have the right to die to escape their condition!"

In other words, it's like /men/ deciding that /women/ "are not persons", as our western law insisted, for ages, without experiencing being woman.

Let the ones caught in the experience, decide.

And have the balls to accept their self-determination.

Cheers.

Well said, both of the above. I don't even think this should be an issue, ESPECIALLY if this Kusch guy is in fact only providing "counseling on the decision to die." I mean, you don't get all up in arms over regular psychotherapists, do you? What are they doing, besides counseling on the decision to live? Gah. Good for Kusch, it sounds like he is helping some people decide if they truly wish to withdraw from the rat race in a dignified and well thought out manner.