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Originally Posted by limey
And if your daughter was thinking of making such a decision?
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Then you go oh noes that's unthinkable and she learns the space with which she can communicate her thoughts isn't by you. A more problematic question is: Could she be right? What if she is suffering so much that her quality of life really isn't worth while living and she truly has no reasonable cause for hope to improve it to a point where it would be? If you loved someone, and they where really in that state of suffering, would you want them too continue living just for you?
IMO The key word which makes this such a difficult line is what counts as "reasonable"....
To the example I gave before - sure, it's possible they would have invented the cure for parkinsons right on time and my uncle would have been in the first test batch - or... Aliens.. But it's not likely - it's not a reasonable cause for hope.
On the opposite extreme, If his daughter is 16yo and just had her heart broken for the first time, the chances she'll recover are pretty close to 100%, if she doesn't it's more likely to be because an asteroid has hit earth then because of the heartbreak itself.
Those examples are pretty black and white, but there' a whole spectrum in between, and the closer it is to the middle the harder it would be to make sense of it.