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What's your position on euthanasia?

Anne Bert (59)  is  a French writer who decided to go to Belgium so she could have the right to die. She suffers from  Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease a neurodegenerative pathology that leads to muscle weakness and paralysis.

From le monde:
[quote] In France, there is a right to "deep and continuous sedation until death" for patients at the end of life, under the Leonetti law voted in 2005. It is "sleep before dying so as not to suffer ". For euthanasia advocates, the Leonetti law has not closed the debate on the choice of end-of-life, and it is this choice that Anne Bert decided to make across the border Belgian, and explains in the French media where she is invited.[/quote]
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cd1019 · 41-45, M
I think if someone wants to spare themselves and/or their loved ones continual pain and suffering of a debilitating disease which no cure exists for, they should be allowed to die with dignity, provided that abuses of the system could be prevented (such as adult children trying to take away the rights of an elderly parent so he/she can be put to death) under such a law.