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If we allowed any type of experimentation on dying patients as long as there was consent, dying patients would end up getting used as a Guineapigs by companies trying to get a lucky indication. It would certainly benefit the families left behind financially, but it would not be pretty. “Here’s a million bucks, please take these 40 drugs that will certainly kill you, but we’ll learn which one we should continue with”.…
If I was dying I'd rather be able to make a choice to my benefit rather than worrying about that it'd "be pretty" for onlookers.
Allowing dying patients to make those sorts of deals with pharmaceuticals is just as horrible in the grander scale of things, they just stand to save a lot more costs and gain a lot more profits than Netflix would in a “Running Man” scenario.