Comment by tim333
3 years ago
If I was dying I'd rather be able to make a choice to my benefit rather than worrying about that it'd "be pretty" for onlookers.
3 years ago
If I was dying I'd rather be able to make a choice to my benefit rather than worrying about that it'd "be pretty" for onlookers.
There are certain choices we as a society do not want to allow you to make even if both you and the other party concents. Just because your dying and for instance would be ok with being hunted for sport in a Netflix special in return for a million dollar payout to your family does not mean we should forgoe all morals, logic and law and just accept it.
Allowing dying patients to make those sorts of deals with pharmaceuticals is just as horrible in the grander scale of things, they just stand to save a lot more costs and gain a lot more profits than Netflix would in a “Running Man” scenario.
You might be able to make an informed decision. Most people (and most doctors, for that matter), are not qualified to accurately judge the many uncertainties, biases and trade-offs present in drugs only tested in early stage clinical trials.
And to add on top of that. If pharmaceuticals could buy out dying patients at a fraction of a cost of even the pre clinical trials to get first human dose there would no longer be such a thing as “early stage clinical trials”