Euthanasia

[mr.morrison]

i dont see what the big deal is? honestly would you rather have your mom who wants to die, die in a clean and painless way or come home and find her head blown off or her hanging by a rope in the kitchen?
i think that it should be allowed, but the person must not have a mental retardation or something, and make the choice themselves. no one else can make the decision for them. if they are in a coma, too bad. you cant pull the plug.

anyone elses views?

[BudToker]

The problem i have with it is that some people might want to die at one point in their life and not be able to foloow through with the deed themselves. They may regret it later. But I know I'd want to do it if I had a really bad terminal illness (after I did a lot of cool and dangerous things of course).

[edyb123]

anyone who tries to control the right of someone else to be able to end their life is a pillock...

[Mirakel]

so where do we draw the line?? where is human life sacred and where is it not? if we open the door a crack, and say that "here. right here. it's ok to end human life here" where will we be going? obviously we can't stop people from committing suicide, but ending human life is murder, no matter what cloak you put on it.

[BudToker]

so where do we draw the line?? where is human life sacred and where is it not? if we open the door a crack, and say that "here. right here. it's ok to end human life here" where will we be going? obviously we can't stop people from committing suicide, but ending human life is murder, no matter what cloak you put on it.
Agreed.

[dollydagger]

I must set one thing stright here.....euthanasia and scuicide are NOT the same thing....(i had ethics last semester, and the point was made quite clear to me and my classmates by my professor)

on that note, i am absolutely, positively PRO active euthanasia, voluntary or non-. I would want it for myself, and all members of my family feel the same way. So say you have a week to live in pain, or a hot dose of potassium chloride and get it over with......well, duh.

But the problem with active euthanasia is that the medical industry has it written in law that it only favors passive euthanasia; pulling out all the plugs and letting one dehydrate to death. Now which is more humane, in your opinion?

[lifelovefun]

They may regret it later. lol - I don't know how your going to regret being dead lol :)

[kar33m]

yeah excatly. the point is that it's not called euthanasia unless the patient is terminally ill. Only if he is gonna die anyway, in other words.

It's just a way to have a quick painless death instead of a slow painfull one.
I am pro euthanasia.

[3xi]

what we do onto our selves is our own right!!!

[Emanresu]

Voluntary active euthanasia is in my opinion morally permissible and should be legal. Currently voluntary active euthanasia is allowed in the Netherlands and also in Oregon. In Oregon the guidelines are somehing like this: The patient must be evaluated by two doctors who must agree that the patient's death is unavoidable in the near future (I don't remember the specific lenghts of time invlolved). The patient must make repeated verbal requests to die, followed by a written request to die. The patient must also be found to be of sound mind. If these criteria are met then the patient may be given a lethal prescription which he or she can then choose to use or not use by him or herself with or without help from a care provider. No care provider can be forced to write or administer a lethal prescription.

Some people argue that there is a potential for abuse but I won't buy that argument until there is empirical evidence to back it up. We will have to watch the Netherlands and Oregon in order to gain insight into the effects of allowing active euthanasia on society. I think that it is possible to legislate in such a way as to minimize abuse while allowing sick people to have some control over their last months alive. If a person is dying of cancer, and will be dead within six months, and is in horrible pain when not completely knocked out on morphine, then why not let them kill themselves with a lethal prescription? And I don't buy religious arguments against euthanasia. Asking someone to linger on in pain because your god says so is a very selfish and ugly thing to do

[noachianite]

My mother strongly disagrees with euthanasia, she thinks that we should only go when God wants to take us. However I believe that God gave us the free will judgement to put others out of their suffering. But the question is which do you believe???? lol

[Autentique]

I'm very Pro Eutanasia, what is worse than keeping a person alive that does not wish to be?
A great movie on the topic, it's The Sea Inside, it's based on a true story. It's more on the sentimental side, but I think it gives a greater understanding.

[spirit of the night]

put basically, people should have control over their death if they want it.


lets say, there is this old woman, she has lived a full live, she is very old and she is paralysed from the neck down, she has nothing to live for, and she is ready to die, to keep fighting for life would mean alot of pain and would be ultimatly pointless.

why shouldnt she be allowed to die?

take a real example, my great uncle, he has no children, his wife died a year ago, he cannot walk, he just sits there with his carers fighting to keep him alive. why? again, he has nothing to live for.

let people die with dignity and grace.

blessings
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[spirit of the night]

oh and another great movie on the subject is million dollar baby.

blessings
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[Captain Cannabis]

I think it's good.

I had to get my dog put down a couple days ago. He was in pain and the vet said he would have had a violent heart attack if we didnt get him put down.

[somethingnew912]

I think that this subject can lead to a "slippery slope" type argument, so if there is going to be euthanasia, it needs to be done in a way that allows the person freedom over their life, but does not require the direct actions of another in order to end it.

If it were set up so that each person was supplied with all the means of actually committing suicide, with the special drugs, etc...and it was all set up so that the person needed only press a button, or if they are paralyzed, some other mechanism so that they are the ones performing the action. I think there is a distinct difference between providing someone with the means to kill themselves and actually killing them....neither the state nor doctors should have that right.

[WanderingSoul]

Voluntary active euthanasia is in my opinion morally permissible and should be legal. Currently voluntary active euthanasia is allowed in the Netherlands and also in Oregon. In Oregon the guidelines are somehing like this: The patient must be evaluated by two doctors who must agree that the patient's death is unavoidable in the near future (I don't remember the specific lenghts of time invlolved). The patient must make repeated verbal requests to die, followed by a written request to die. The patient must also be found to be of sound mind. If these criteria are met then the patient may be given a lethal prescription which he or she can then choose to use or not use by him or herself with or without help from a care provider. No care provider can be forced to write or administer a lethal prescription.

Some people argue that there is a potential for abuse but I won't buy that argument until there is empirical evidence to back it up. We will have to watch the Netherlands and Oregon in order to gain insight into the effects of allowing active euthanasia on society. I think that it is possible to legislate in such a way as to minimize abuse while allowing sick people to have some control over their last months alive. If a person is dying of cancer, and will be dead within six months, and is in horrible pain when not completely knocked out on morphine, then why not let them kill themselves with a lethal prescription? And I don't buy religious arguments against euthanasia. Asking someone to linger on in pain because your god says so is a very selfish and ugly thing to doI agree with you.

[little ski]

i completley agree with euthanasia, i think it would work perfectly well if it was regulated. We can all make the judgement when we are well and healthy as to whether or not we would want or life terminated early if we were in extreme pain or terminally ill. I am fit and healthy at the moment but know now that i would want to pass away in as little pain and suffering as possible if i did become ill. We could adopt a similar system to donating organs, where could carry a card or sign some form when we reach a certain age as to whether we would agree to a lethal injection or something similar if we were suffering and our chance of ever living with any quality of life was gone. We put animals to sleep when they are suffering and noone kicks up a fuss, its the humane thing to do.

[edenfield]

you wouldn't believe what goes on already in the hospitals, doctors are the old but still very much alive gods

[Jimmy P]

we should be allowed to make our most important decisions for ourselves.
I agree with Emanresu and WanderingSoul.

[Meretrix]

Anything that only affects our own body should be our own decision and be legal. If someone is terminally ill and is capable of speaking and says they would rather die then it should be. If someone has never spoken their opinion and they get turned into a vegetable then it should be up to the combined opinions of the doctors (If the person will ever recover) and the closest people to the person (Trying to be empathetic of the person).

[jamaican_youth]

It should be legal. If a person is in pain and they want to die, they should have the right to die.

[honeyfugle]

This can be a tricky one. As a Christian the bible tells you that God is the only one that should take or give life so in that respect i should be strongly anti-euthanasia, but i know in my heart i would be unfaithful to that if i ever saw any of my loved ones in suffering and wanting to die so its hard to be completely against it when i know under the circumstances i would probably find myself supporting this loved one (whoever its is) if i knew it was their 100% wish to die. There are many reasons to be against it, but in the situation i dont think those reasons would even occur to you, being faced with someone who wants nothing more than to die.

Being truthful, i not sure that anyone who normally has strong, unmoving anti-euthanasia views would be able to hold on to their views quite so strongly if their mother or sister or best friend was in that situation, dying slowly and in constant pain and calling out to die. No matter what your reason for being ant-euthanasia, your views would be tested.

[RiskyShift]

I'm in favour of voluntary euthanasia for adults but I also think in certain circumstances parents should be allowed to consent to their newborn baby being euthanised, which I think a lot more people would have a gut reaction against. Currently for certain conditions such as the worst cases of spinal bifida - which can be treated somewhat with repeated surgeries over the course of a child's life (sometimes dozens of major operations before they are even teens), but can't be cured and the damage to their bodies and sometimes brains if they have hydrocephalus can't be reversed - it's already accepted practice to give parents the option of withholding treatment so they will die from their defects instead of having to live a miserable life. The problem is sometimes babies, even with severe birth defects, still take several weeks or even months to die this way, and it isn't legal to actively end their lives. This doesn't seem quite right, since either way the child will die, but if active euthanasia were allowed it would be a quick painless death and without they will have a slow, painful death. I don't see how it is more moral to allow a child to suffer a painful death over granting them a quick one.