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Castlevania and Bloodstained developer Shutaro Ida dies aged 52

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Re: Castlevania and Bloodstained developer Shutaro Ida dies aged 52

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dsign wrote: post #10

One in four people dies of cancer[^1]. Those are terrible odds as they are, but it gets worse because most people will go through their lives terrified of when it will be their time to enter that Russian roulette of agony, and because everybody will have to see or care for a friend or relative dying that way. Our therapies and treatments are so pitifully inadequate and yet so damn trying and expensive... We need a tr…

Or a legal reform to die with dignity, in our own terms, and not be forced to endure a terminal illness until organ failure.

Re: Castlevania and Bloodstained developer Shutaro Ida dies aged 52

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ASalazarMX wrote: post #11
dsign wrote: post #10

One in four people dies of cancer[^1]. Those are terrible odds as they are, but it gets worse because most people will go through their lives terrified of when it will be their time to enter that Russian roulette of agony, and because everybody will have to see or care for a friend or relative dying that way. Our therapies and treatments are so pitifully inadequate and yet so damn trying and expensive... We need a tr…

Or a legal reform to die with dignity, in our own terms, and not be forced to endure a terminal illness until organ failure.

That's not a solution, but a stopgap measure for the fact we can't do better. A stopgap measure I would prefer for myself though; not arguing the fact that it's the least bad option.

But there's is something I don't understand and I can't ask ChatGPT for fear of them closing my account and reporting me to the police, the health authorities and the Inquisition, but I thought that the repercussions for dying on your own terms came in the form of stigma? Is there anything the law does to your surviving relatives? Also, at least in USA it's legal and relatively simple to own a high caliber weapon, which to me beats all the options legally available in the rest of the world.

Re: Castlevania and Bloodstained developer Shutaro Ida dies aged 52

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Post by toomuchtodo »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #11
dsign wrote: post #10

One in four people dies of cancer[^1]. Those are terrible odds as they are, but it gets worse because most people will go through their lives terrified of when it will be their time to enter that Russian roulette of agony, and because everybody will have to see or care for a friend or relative dying that way. Our therapies and treatments are so pitifully inadequate and yet so damn trying and expensive... We need a tr…

Or a legal reform to die with dignity, in our own terms, and not be forced to endure a terminal illness until organ failure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide#Legality_by_c...

Re: Castlevania and Bloodstained developer Shutaro Ida dies aged 52

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Post by ASalazarMX »

dsign wrote: post #12
ASalazarMX wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or a legal reform to die with dignity, in our own terms, and not be forced to endure a terminal illness until organ failure.

That's not a solution, but a stopgap measure for the fact we can't do better. A stopgap measure I would prefer for myself though; not arguing the fact that it's the least bad option. But there's is something I don't understand and I can't ask ChatGPT for fear of them closing my account and reporting me to the police, the health authorities and the Inquisition, but I thought that the repercussions for dying on your ow…

In my country, Mexico, the law doesn't recognize euthanasia, just suicide/homicide. Suicide of course is not a crime, because what are they going to do, jail you? Assisting suicide in any way is murder, though.

There are still repercussions for the people you leave behind. I can recall these:

- Any insurance is void

- Inheritance can be complicated if you can argue that the suicide was encouraged. It becomes premeditated murder.

- I think debt, specially if it's considerable, is handled different that natural death, that voids any debt.

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