I want to die!

What's your thoughts on assisted suicide?

I thought my idea on the subject was clear.. till I read this..

I thought suicide selfish.. yes I know you have to be there to understand it, and desperate to undertake it.. but assisted suicide?

After following the case of 2 babies in the UK where Drs decided to let them die, my own father was given a drug to help him pass some years ago, so is assisted suicide not active already? But decided on by Drs them selves?

Read this, then have a think about it..

A time to die - Vanguard News

 

I think if people have thought it through & still wanna do it, let them........why allow needless suffering?

 

Can I start by saying, based on the title, I thought this thread was going to be something different. Thank God it's not.

Phew! You had me worried, Morrow.

That being said, I'm split on the issue. As a right-leaning libertarian type, I think people should be able to do what they want with their lives. Even end them.

But, my partner is a doctor, and she is very much against assisted suicide, and I see her point.

So, I feel I'm in the middle and being tugged from both sides. Guess the end result is that I support it, as long as the person assisting you isn't conflicted after taking an oath to "do no harm."

 

I think it should be allowed in certain medically indicated instances.

I don't think it would be good to allow it in instances where a healthy person was just sick of life.

 

That's hard. I hate to see anyone in unbearable pain, and yet, I don't have the conscience to put someone out of thier misery. I'm the wrong man for that, can't be relied on.

 

we have a fairly good system here for allowing it after a few checks are made

i agree with our laws


click on Is assisted suicide legal in Canada? and it will bring up the procedure and laws

Assisted Suicide - End-of-Life Law and Policy in Canada

 

I initially thought the same thing too at the beginning of this post.

 

I'm all for assisted suicide, I think its inhumane to make people suffer when they're doomed to die a long, painful death

But i've never considered it from a physician's standpoint. I can definitely see how that creates an ethical dilemma

 

Here, where assisted suicide is not legal, Hubby thinks that when there is a hopeless case the doctors and nurses will just up the dose on the Morphine to prevent them from lingering.

I don't know if that's a fact but it kind of seems like it could be true.

 

That's quite amazing.. in sure lots of people don't realise this is in canada.. thanks spaceman

 

And we all head off to Canada for our old age!

 

live as if you were going to live forever.
you don't have to worry about dying.
sooner or later you will.

no one should be forced to remain alive if there's no way to end their suffering.
the only problem is, no one should be denied being kept alive because they can't afford to subsidise hospitals and pharmacutical corporations.
i've seen too many people die because they didn't have the means to pay to be kept alive.
(i mean people who could have been healed/cured and walked out healthy, but just didn't happen to have the right insurance, or their s.o. couldn't find where the hell they did with their insurance card.)

 

That's what needs to be focused on vs. mandating your choice to die.

 

Why not just ID on heroin or something, same thing sort of

 

This thread has a very alarming clickbait title

 

really?

 

Sometimes, not allowing someone to die is the harm.

 

I agree with Storch; there are times when a physician would be doing more (or as much) harm by allowing a person to live in pain. However, doctors should not be forced to provide assisted suicides if they are ethically opposed.

 

I was actually going to say that, sometimes, death is the healing. But I didn't.

 

Too many old people in the first world sucking up resources, blowing out healthcare costs.

Over 60s, we should just get someone to follow them around with a club, help them with an "assisted suicide", bop them on the head as soon as they stub their toe or something.

Ohhh, you whacked your shin on the coffee table, thatsa gotta hurt, let me end your sufferering, BOP!

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