This is horrifying
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One of the reasons I refuse to be an organ donor.
To make matters worse here in Germany the libertarians want to make it easier to declare someone "dead". Right now you have to be brain dead but because that's too expensive and time consuming to determine they want to relax requirements to cardiac death.
Europe is weird.
'Freedom to die' is a trojan horse ideology that libertarians in every country trip over. The concept of nominally having a pulse but still being a vegetable (or having other terminal issues) raises the concern in people's mind over when they want others to stop fighting on their behalf and just switch them off. Then they naively call for such protocols to be incorporated institutionally, at which point the hostile institutions weaponise their new freedoms.
Suicide is suicide. That's at least a potentially merciful action, but as seen from Canada's mass killing program, literally no one else should be involved in the decision or execution of death.