Comment on How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?

• Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Again: depends on the legal system that statement is not that easy in that generic form.

  Ik specifically thinking about the situation in which a human no longer can communicate what they want:

  In Germany there is the legal concept of transferring this kind of decision power in case you yourself are no longer able to do that. The “pulling the plug” situation: the individual can no longer state their wishes directly concerning the situation but left a binding document who has the decision power in their stead.

  Now you could argue that this also is “the human has to want it” as they wanted the other person to have this life and death power.

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