[keith_d]

From an engineering perspective it's relatively straightforward to kill yourself painlessly without difficult to obtain drugs. I can think of a couple of alternatives.

Whether we should is a much more difficult question. Any kind of legal euthanasia runs the risk of pushy relatives encouraging someone to take it.

The Swiss approach where candidates have to take two interviews with qualified psychiatric specialists decent time apart before they are considered for euthanasia makes a lot of sense. It wouid be interesting to see some statistics about how many are rejected at that stage.

Just my thoughts,

Keith.

P.S. If I thought I was heading for a situation where this applied, I wouldn't rely on the government. I'd do a spot of online shopping.