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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by thekid
But, when the patient is still alive and wants to die, that means the patient is depressed. The patient's request is a cry for help.
He actually wants psychological counseling, not death.

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Excuse me, but that is rubbish... A patient can be in great stress and pain before he dies. If someone is in hospital having great stress and pain, counting the last days and takes this desicion he doesn't need any psychological help, he wants to rest in peace...

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Okay, I don't want to go into too many details here, but maybe I'll just give you the blob model so we're on the same plane.



This is basically a representation of what someone is compared to who they think they are. The blob is who you really are, this is your true self. The house is who you think you are, this is your self concept. And half of it isn't even in the blob. So psychologically speaking a person knows very little about himself. And then there's the area of illusion - which is who he thinks he is, but he isn't. Your self concept develops between he ages of 3 and 5, and for the rest of your life you protect, maintain and enhance it. Yes, there are ways to grow - to know more about yourself, however we're talking average joe here.

A person is making a decision based on their self concept. If you don't think it exists, we can test it with human emotions, like say embarrassment. Embarrassment is when someone is very self conscious and has let someone else see a part of their blob they want to pretend doesn't exist. Often they do not attribute that part of the blob to their self concept, since mostly good things go into it. People are hostile about who they think they are, and it impairs their vision to make clear and wise decisions. For instance an anorexic who thinks she's fat will starve herself and throw up trying to loose weight. But if only she realised that she's only fat in her area of illusion and that actually in her blob she is far far underweight! No I do not believe in euthanasia.

Daniel