[quote=Sere]Is it? Is there really a difference between the two, or, is it just a play with words. [/quote] Yes there really is a difference. A suicide is a person who terminates their own existence without justifiable reason based on emotional or mental difficulties that they are having at the time. A euthanasia is a person who is conscious that their mental state is either degrading to a point where ANIMALS have more conscious thought and control of their body, or the physical pain is so great that it isn't like torture, but is literal torture, to continue living. [QUOTE]How long must someone debate about their rational death that it does not become suicide but is a good death? [/QUOTE] It's not about how long. It's about reasons. [QUOTE]What you call criminal neglect, is there a difference to watch someone die in a nursing home then same a prison? Both are covered by tax dollars. If I was a nurse and have the flu, one is in the nursing home and the other in a prison. If their life was so run down that my flu kills both, is it criminal neglect that they died. NO, because were do you stop.[/QUOTE] Yes actually it IS criminal neglect that they died. If your nursing home or prison maintained such a low quality of standards that a common illness resulted in the death of someone under your care that is Criminal Neglect and is illegal at least here in Australia. [QUOTE]Reader, you could have had the common flu in your life, gave it to someone else and that person gave it to someone else that ended in death. Or, you could have had the flue, gave it to someone and never seen them again only for them to die some time latter.[/QUOTE] Anyone who doesn't seek medical treatment if the flu becomes that life threatening is going to die and I have no compunction to save them. But then again, I don't live in America and its idiotically draconian medical care system that is on par with most third world countries because "Health Care" is "too Communist" to have. [QUOTE]The reason I support suicide at any time, as were going to die some time in our life. I can be a 100 year old woman and be killed by a 8 year old girl with a flu. Oh, you can come up with a rational reason for my death in that way. But, if I say I want to die in say my 20's and in good health, then it is not a rational reason to die. So, the rational reason to be alive is to pay taxes?[/quote] A rational reason for your death if an 8yo with the flu gives it to you and you die? That's not "rational" that's a "medical" reason. If you want to die in your twenties and good health it is just cowardice, being afraid to face the world, being so afraid of the world that death is seen as an escape that must be taken. A suicide is someone who decides that nothing they do can make the world around them better for themselves, even when their life is something millions of people elsewhere would envy.