How many people here believe in euthanasia..?
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aw I think this is a tough one! And I believe that euthanasia happens anyway! what do you think happens when someone dieing from cancer has their morphine upped. To all intense and purposes they are being given an overdose and their lives are ended quicker. Same as people that are taken of medication or when the elderly who have chest infections are laid flat.
Having said that I don't think I could authorize someone to inject my mother knowing that that injection would cause her death!
Couldnt live with that, but could I live with seeing her suffer knowing I could stop it? who knows. Only those that have been there I suppose.
I think euthanasias good for people who are hopelessly in comas so it takes some pressure off of their families.
However in the case of terminally ill patients.. I don't know.. It would be a personal thing between that person and their family. If he/she was in enough pain, and it was better for them to be dead than alive, then maybe I would consider letting them.
From a religious stand point, I don't think some Christians will allow any sort of suicide.
i never believed in it till i watched my dad die of cancer very slowly and painfully and he was begging me to let him die. he didnt want to take his morphine tabs as he thought they were keeping him alive. its the worst thing ever and since then i have been able to understand how people do agree with it however wrong it is. by the time someone is in that state they are not capable of doing it themselves. I could never have done it and if its a loved one u just want them to survive even one more day but i can understand why people do agree with it.
Sometimes it's not just about pain it's about dignity.
My grandad was really really ill with lung cancer and he would not come to my wedding bacause he did not want to be remembered like that when for 70 yers he was realy fit and healthy, some people would just rather go before they lose their dignity it must be a horrible feeling to be helpless and until you've been there I don't think you can know
If you have ever seen a loved one die in pain and there is nothing medical science can do then euthanasia can be a merciful and rightful decision
the vets have the right saying you got to be crule to be kind.
If you must kill yourself do so in a clean way, remember if you throw yourself under a train some poor bloke has to walk the line picking up the mess and the train driver will need counciling. Think of those around who may be affected by your acts. Perhaps an agreed death in a hospital in a controlled environment isn't such a bad idea?
We use euthanasia on our animals because we dont want to see them suffer. We know that they are terminally ill and their quality of life is no longer worth it so we have them put to sleep gently, humanely and with dignity.
Why are our animals allowed to have this dignified death but people aren't? Are animals more valued than humans? People with terminal illnesses die horribly, in pain and knowing it is happening. They suffer, their loved ones suffer and it reaches the point where you no longer remember the personas they really were. All you remember is the sick person in the bed. That ruins lives.
Yes I do believe in it and I only hope thet someone puts me away if I end up out of it and having to have my backside wiped.
I also believe that in time it will become common place, as if we keep people going past their sell by date noone will want to meet the cost of keeping them alive.
If one of my loved ones was in terrible pain with no hope of recovery I think I would be able to terminate their life.
in-humane is keeping someone alive on medication with a terminal illness that's playing god i saw my grandad die from cancer laying in a bed in a hospice drips and what not coming from his skeletal body if this was a pet you would end up in court for cruelty to animals.imagine being in a vegative state you can't talk ,see,or hear you cannot move un- aided you have no control over bowel or bladder incurable what would you want next
I believe in it for myself, as Id hate to be a burden on my family if I was in a vegetative state (or similar)
Saying that, I couldn,t do that to one of my own children, no matter what.
Its a battle for your own conscience.
Did you consider it from the other perspective? What happens if you had the illness that caused you an extreme amount of pain every single day, and no amount of drugs can alleviate it? Add to that you see your family crying over you and altering their lives just to accompany you; you have may have pain relief but your family and friends won't.
If I were in that position I would certainly pull my own plugs if I could.
It is hard to accept that medical advancement that helps preserve life is eventually going to kill us all.
For every normal birth there is one that has had to have medical attention to survive.
Old people are being helped to live longer lives.
People who should have died naturally have been kept alive by medicine and transplanted organs.
We are gradually going to run out of room and food on this earth.
Some countries have already seen the light and limited the size of families.
If voluntary euthanasia is not allowed now it will eventually become a necessity and a compulsory rule to enable life to continue.
Have you ever watched the film 'Soylent Green'. It is a fantasy film that will eventually become reality.
You may not have a say whether or not you want to come into this world but as a free person you should certainly have the choice when you want to leave it.
People who have relatives that are virtual cabbages walk around all day pitying them and other people console them.
It is wrong, who wants to live the life of a cabbage.
On the other hand you have people like Steven Hawking, highly disabled but with a brilliant mind.
If his disability was from birth should he have been euthanised?
Many will say no because of what he has become, but had he have been euthanised at birth, who would have known the difference.
There would have been a substantial saving on medical bills that is for sure and would his insight have realy been missed?
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If a person is capable of making the choice it's for them to decide if it's right for them. It's far too easy to say it's wrong if you have never known constant pain or ever nursed a close relative who was dying! Do you really think that all it takes is a few pain-killers?
I'm a care-worker for the elderly and disabled and as I'm nearly 60 I've seen what constant pain can reduce a person to! I've heard too often the phrase, 'I wish I could die' Whether cancer or arthritis pain is pain! eventually the need is for more or stronger drugs and the side effects have far more impact. I watched my own parents suffer and all I could do was give them my word that I'd honour their choices not to be resuscitated if anything happened. That too will be my choice when I know the time is right to choose. I hope my children will be strong enough to accept it! As the law stands I'll never ask them to help me to do it. It's society and religion that dictates that we live on and our own fear of dying.
I can relieve the suffering of my animals and as heart-breaking as it is I stay with them to the end! The animals know when it's time to let go I think we too lose the will to survive but we keep humans hanging on whether they want it or not!
Which is really the cold and inhumane?
Perhaps you should come back and say you don't believe when you have had the experience of someone begging you! You might find you have changed your mind.
As you say, you haven't been in the horrible position of seeing a loved one suffer.
My mum had a massive stroke, following the news that her leg needed to be amputated (she was 72). She couldn't move, speak or swallow, and was doubly incontinent. She also had heart failure. On the 2nd day, tests showed that she had cancer on one lung. Doctors said there was NOTHING they could do, and that she wouldn't last long.
After 3 weeks (she hadn't had any nutrition whatsoever, only saline) I asked them to remove the drip. They agreed and she died 2 days later. It was the worst time in my life, but I did that to save her from further suffering.
DON'T talk to me about God- there is no such thing
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