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Ex-TV director gets suspended term for helping commentator's suicide

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Nishibe was hopefully supportive of euthanasia for all. Anyway, good call by the courts. What an elaborate and horrible way to go though.

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According to the ruling, Kubota drove Nishibe to the Tama River in Tokyo, placed him in a safety harness,

if he there to die why place him in a safety harness?? makes about as much sense as the idiots who sterilize the lethal injection needle..

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Aly, my guess is it was to stop him from flowing downriver. Guess he just wanted to drown in place. Not my idea of a good exit.

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How do you assist suicide? It is murder. Suicide is personal choice. It’s not so hard to do by yourself. They should of tried to prevent it.

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I'm not going to list them, but there a whole lot better ways to die than drowning in a river. How horrible.

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Oops. I meant "...there are a...

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Oh, so now it's okay to kill someone as long that person asks for it..?!

Weird..?Spooky..? WRONG.

Just simply wrong. No matter what excuse/reasoning people come up with.

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Is only humane to put someone down if they suffer too much and ask for it. It's kinda wrong to denied humans the right to even decide how to die on their own terms. This is what's wrong with society these days. Try to damn hard to be innocent and is afraid how others view them. Everybody is afraid to get their hands dirty apparently.

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