In a historic decision last week, a longstanding United Nations body recognized that the international human rights system doesn’t fully protect older people’s rights, and it recommended a new human rights treaty to help correct this.
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Like the right to end your life when you feel like it’s full, complete and there’s literalky nothing left to be done for you. To end it when it’s a good time to go, in the presence of your loved ones and while you still have your mind in good health.
Makes sense, but the article makes it sound like the do not have “fully protected rights”. I think about children in such ways, handicapped people or people with dementia. Where it makes sense that they do not have every right based on their limited abilities.