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The conceptualization behind them isn't treated everywhere equally. I'm not as traditionally-minded as the people around me, but I live somewhere that's far more traditional than progressive California. Now maybe I'm not updated on the norms (and to be fair, I'm still new here), but I think I remember reading it's viewed as an omen of a shortage of therapy here, in the same way as its more self-destructive alternatives.
It seems like there’s some disconnect here on what a DNR order is. I’m not an expert but my understanding is it’s a legal statement the patient made prior to becoming a patient defining what lengths should or shouldn’t be taking to keep them alive.
So I don’t see what that has to do with California being progressive.
When you say “omen of a shortage of therapy” it sounds like you’re maybe talking about being an organ donor?
...as opposed to self-harm?
Some people consider not wanting to be alive to be not wanting to be alive. Cut and dry. They lump all the implications together, all the dilemmas and all the complexities that arise with the life issue. This is often associated with the law-based concepts of the Good Samaritan and the "duty to protect". They, of course, are not mind readers and can't look into the individual's psyche and they resort to not taking chances. Was the person of sound mind? Were they under duress? Where do they stand between circumstantial acceptance and circumstantial yearning? Things even such as those they won't end up guessing. Some are too afraid of what such a power can turn into, via the slippery slope trope.
The more clarification I ask for the less clarity I’m getting which is kinda disappointing because I think the original question was possibly very interesting…
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You say that like "some people consider not wanting to be alive to be not wanting to be alive" might not immediately establish "alright, this society quite clearly thinks refusal of life support is a passive form of suicide". That's just how it is here, whether I like it or not.
Are you saying that a DNR would be viewed as the same as euthanasia? Because those are very different things legally and a DNR is a very standard document in most developed countries.
Different in some places but not everywhere. I'm not saying this as a position, just an observation. My viewpoint would be far more developed than even that.
Well what is your viewpoint? After multiple comments I still can't piece it together.