assuming it could be properly safeguarded (a big assumption), the completed-life pill would not necessarily displease many doctors i spoke to; it would allow them to get back to saving lives but while some applicants for euthanasia are furious with doctors who turn them down, in practice people are unwilling to take their own lives rather than drink the poison or open the drip, 95% of applicants for active life termination in the netherlands ask a doctor to kill them in a society that vaunts its rejection of established figures of authority, when it comes to death, everyone asks for mummy assuming it could be properly safeguarded (a big assumption), the completed-life pill would not necessarily displease many doctors i spoke to; it would allow them to get back to saving lives

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