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Do you think severely mentally ill people retain any rights “to determine what shall be done...

Do you think severely mentally ill people retain any rights “to determine what shall be done with [their] own [bodies]?” Why or why not?

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If you think in every mental illness case people should lose their rights to determine what shall be done to their own , then you are wrong because there are very rare case in which a person can lose his mental capacity and mental capacity is an ability to take decisions. There are various cases of mental illness such schizophrenia , depression , addictive behaviors and so on , in which person have hallucinations, suicidal thinking , mood disorders and in such cases person not able to take decisions on own . Therefore, in such cases or if a person is suffering from terminal mental illness which cannot be cured then the person lose the right to take decisions .

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