What are your thoughts on euthanasia, or assisted suicide?
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Always thought “my body, my choice” was the battle cry for something like this.
I think that if a person is bedridden and in pain and is due to die soon then he/she should be allowed to dead his/her life.
I have a living will that says that if I can’t feel myself then I’m not to have any tube feedings or water. Also if there is no brain activity then I’m to have no life support system hooked up to me.
I think it should be up to the individual. We need more doctors like Dr. Kevorkian, was an asset that is needed in this world for the right people in a bad situation.
When someone is suffering or approaching the end of life, there needs to be a legal avenue towards humane assisted suicide. We want to make sure that this choice isn’t being coerced by an external agent nor by mental illness, and we can debate where the line is…but there has to be a line where we respect that someone really has made their own free choice and we respect it.
I think those who oppose it mostly do so out of a misguided religious justification. The Bible speaks against suicide but to my understanding, it doesn’t speak to euthanasia to avoid suffering of someone with a mortal illness. Expanding those anti-suicide passages to include euthanasia is the reader putting their own assumptions into the text.
I would like to be revived, even if all my ribs are broken and the first aider arms are tired. I would like to be on a ventilator for as long as it takes for my body to heal.
I was in horrible mental anguish since in 1999/2000 to a few months ago. I got through it. Took 26,500+ years (23 muggle year’s) to be restored as far as I have gone now.
Had M.A.I.D. (Medical Assistance in Dying) been offered in my second year of university I might be tempted to take up with the offer.
I am stubborn to the core. I am a fighter.
It’s been legal under the Death With Dignity Act in my state since 1997.
I think it’s a humane concept and a good law.
And I wish people who’ve reached the end of their useful lives would take advantage of it, instead of getting into politics.
All for it.
My father considered it but you had to be a citizen of Oregon for at least 6 months and he wasn’t.
I’m OK with it, depending on the circumstances.
In situations where there is no quality of life and no hope for any and the person desires it, I’m all for it. Even in situations where the person can’t, if the family desires it, I’m okay. See Karen Ann Quinlan. Not for it if the person is basically healthy and just decides they don’t want to live anymore. In a situation like that, don’t drag the doctor into it.
Everyone should be in their right to end it, in my view.
No matter the reason.
For under aged (<25) some talking to/with would be adviced (since their brains are not fully grown; potential poor decision making).
If the person has a painful terminal illness I am all for it.
If the person is just horribly depressed get therapy.
I think it needs to be extended to people without terminal illness.
No one is born with consent, so after 18 we should be able to end it painlessly.
Until better social safety nets are in place at least.
Make all school lunches free, taken out of our taxes for a start.
I’m ambivalent.
Initial take is that people should have a choice. Yet I know people who have tried and are glad they didn’t succeed. And I know people who tried and wish they had succeeded. How do we distinguish the two when offering this? What kind of safeguards would we need for senior abuse?
(What do school lunches have to do with euthanasia?)
@Dutchess_III Maybe the “mystery meat” is a thing that could cause euthanasia.
I guess part of the problem with doctor assisted suicide or euthanasia is the “Doctor-assisted” part. I believe people (adults) have the right to live their lives as they want. No one tells someone that they can’t eat junk food or that they have to exercise, take vitamins, etc. They can live any way they like, no matter how destructive and unhealthy it might be. People have the right to do high risk things that could cause them injury or death if they so desire (skydiving for example). So trying suicide is also something that cannot reasonably be legislated. But by asking another person to do it for you is putting them into a position of being a murderer. That’s why I believe it should be limited only to those that have no hope and/or no chance of living with any quality of life.
^^^Murder isn’t always wrong.
^^Yes, it is. Taking another life is never acceptable, though sometimes it might be a blessing. Even in war it is wrong. We justify it in any number of ways, but taking a life should be something that eats at you endlessly. Even killing a pet that needs to be put down should bother you. Legislating that you can have your doctor do it for you is wrong. A doctor is supposed to help, to heal, to cure.
Ya know Wulfie I tend to disagree with you on just about anything political, I agree with you on this topic where people suffering from a terminal illness , or a painful terminal illness should have the choice if they don’t want to continue on,but others if they can lead a normal life after health care they really should seek that avenue instead.
Wulf.
I wish I could give you a thousand GA’s, for that response about murder…
I can’t speak for Dutch, but I would have a similar opinion.
“Wrong,” is correct Wulf. It’s ALWAYS “wrong.“However. “Prudent,” is a different thing altogether…
We have the right to murder in “self defense,” or to protect others. Legally. (If circumstances dictate that to be the motive, and the judicial system’s investigation, and due process concludes that to be factual.)
People indeed have rights. I think.
They have the right to kill themselves, at any moment, in my opinion.
If someone wants to take the position that people have the right to make decisions that they are aware will lead to their possible unnatural demise, then logic suggests (to me) that murder is justifiable in certain circumstances. i.e. If a person decides to try to murder me, they have decided to behave in a way that is similar to other risky behavior. Or….. Something like that…
In college I was shocked to learn that not everything we think is wrong is not actually wrong. Depends on the circumstances.
^Indeed Dutch. College is great starting place, for freeing young minds. (That’s why so many colleges have a liberal/left tilt.)
“Life, is in the details.”....
@MrGrimm888 I think we need to start long before college. Day one is the best place to start.
^I couldn’t agree more. Rather than pollute the thread on my soap box, I’ll refrain…
@MrGrimm888 This is your soap box, pollute away! The floor is yours. :D
You are one the most prolific writers I know and I love what you write.
After watching my mom die last year, I know she wanted to die on God’s clock, but for others who are terminal with different beliefs, I wish it was an option.
People do it humanely for animals, same concept.
My father had lung cancer that had gotten into his throat so that he couldn’t eat. They put a tube into his stomach so he could be fed a liquid diet but he couldn’t be fed enough to keep him alive so he slowly starved to death.
^That sucks. Sorry.
I’m regretting starting this thread. I didn’t intend to open old wounds for everyone. I should have thought it through more thoroughly….
Apologies…
^Dutch. You should know by now that :
A. I never wish to silence anyone.
B. I always want to hear your stories. :)
The floor is yours.
Please contribute ma’am…
@MrGrimm888 But you can see why my father considered assisted suicide, and why I was all for it if it could’ve taken place. It’s just one of those things so you needn’t apologize.
^No.I get it. I just hate to drag up painful memory.
Dutch…..You wound me….
Careless hands, make for broken hearts…I’ll cry and cry, ‘til my butt farts…..
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