Is euthanasia ever acceptable?
Do you think euthanasia is ever acceptable? I would say yes in cases of a degenerative terminal illness and ONLY if the sufferer was able to give legally recognisable consent.
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Under the facts of your question, I think yes. But that's not really euthanasia, it is assisted suicide. And, in reality, many of us have already made that choice by signed a Do Not Resuscitate Order, or a Right To Die Statement or Living Will--different names for the same document. Many doctors have allowed terminally ill patients in agonizing pain to do just that by over-prescribing medications that they can over-dose with when they cannot bear it any longer. It's only acceptable when it is the patient's choice in my opinion. We should have to freedom to chose to die without interference by the medical profession or the government when it is appropriate. There is value, to me, to die with some dignity remaining. In response to labdoctor, we're playing God by keeping a person alive by a machine.
No.
I would say no. But I do approve of assisted suicide.
Assisted suicide is one person killing themself. Euthansia is one person killing another.
If we do, are we not playing God?
Of course, if the person is going to die soon anyways, why would anyone want to force them to live the last couple weeks or months or years in agonizing pain? i think its inhumane to let someone go on like that.
I agree with it, like you said, in cases of terminal illness, or permanent retardation of some sort - "vegetable" stage.. I also think it would be acceptable for someone who's in a great deal of pain as well.
Then again, who are we, to decide whether or not someone should be able to take their own life?
Assisted suicide is all right.
Yes. On your mother in law.
I am with you - if the person is terminally ill, is in pain, and wishes to end it, they very well should be allowed to.
We talk about compassion and being a compassionate world, yet we make Grandma suffer from cancer or alzheimers as long as medical science can keep her alive.
Stop and think about it... We do euthanasia all the time, it's called Hospice!
What is everybody's problem with the youth in asia?
Killing another person? NO.
Physicisian assisted suicide? Why not. Oregon has it and the administration's attempt to throw it out: it's still legal.
I have no problem with young oriental people. I accept them. (youth in Asia)
I agree with you whole heartedly in this case. I believe that the right to end one's own life in dignity is superior to the belief of the generalized pro-life movement that life should be upheld no matter the cost.
There is the desire to forestall the inevitable when not accepting the pragmatic truth of the inescapable end of life. It is my opinion that families which would rather let a person waste away feel so more so out of selfishness of stalling their own pain over the loss of a loved one. It is my opinion that it is better to commemorate someone with his or her facilities still intact rather to have the last moments with the whithering husk of a person.
yes
It's acceptable when it's done PASSIVELY and/or the individual in question is not human.
i absolutely agree, years of suffering is far worse. i much would prefer a sudden and violent death compared to months, years, or even decades of slowly wasting away, watching as your friends and family "pass you by," so to speak. think about the lifestyle of a person who is a vegetable, never walking, speaking, having fun, ever again. is life worth living at that time? i think not.
i know many will disagree with this, but i think euthanasia could also be applied to morbidly obese people. i cant stand on discovery channel when ever i see some fat, pathetic, 800 pound glutton crying about their lives.
they put the food in their mouth, no one forced them with a gun. and no one say "its an addiction man, they cant help it!" shut up. i like reeses and chocolate too, i just have some self-discipline and self-respect.
instead these fat-so's continue living, consuming enough food to feed a community in Bangledesh, they're a drain on society; people have to bathe them, feed them, dispose of their waste and wipe them for that matter, shave them, clean their sheets, everything. they're always whining and ungrateful too. thats terrible, why live when you cant do anything for yourself?
(cue for humanitarians to reply to my answer and say that im a terrible person)
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