Another good ethical argument

[Leebal]

Do you believe that euthenasia should be legalized?

Think about it.. if there is no hope for the person, should a doctor give the patient a quiet and quick death?

Or think about this: Should someone be forced to live or die?

 

[Phred]

Do you believe that euthenasia should be legalized?

Think about it.. if there is no hope for the person, should a doctor give the patient a quiet and quick death?

Or think about this: Should someone be forced to live or die?

I believe we have a right to die. I don't believe physicians should have the right to kill us.

 

[FSTDT]

Do you believe that euthenasia should be legalized?

Think about it.. if there is no hope for the person, should a doctor give the patient a quiet and quick death?

Yes, euthanasia should be legalized. If someone has no hope for recovery, then it would be extremely cruel to keep them alive against their wishes; it would be far more kind to allow them to die painlessly and with dignity.

 

[Spinrad]

Do you believe that euthenasia should be legalized?

Think about it.. if there is no hope for the person, should a doctor give the patient a quiet and quick death?

Or think about this: Should someone be forced to live or die?

Death should be a choice. The Cult of Life has made mere existance more valuable than any other concern, including personal liberty. They need to be stopped.

 

[Leebal]

Death should be a choice. The Cult of Life has made mere existance more valuable than any other concern, including personal liberty. They need to be stopped.

Well, I read that the Netherlands has it legal there. To a point I think it is okay, but I also read that euthenasia is considered a treatment. So it i not neccesarily for the cronically ill. If the doctors feel it is neccessary, they will do it either by lethal injection or by suffocation without you asking for it. How sad. To that point I consider it murder.

 

[Spinrad]

Well, I read that the Netherlands has it legal there. To a point I think it is okay, but I also read that euthenasia is considered a treatment. So it i not neccesarily for the cronically ill. If the doctors feel it is neccessary, they will do it either by lethal injection or by suffocation without you asking for it. How sad. To that point I consider it murder.

We are all going to die. I have more faith in a physician, even the dreadfully human ones that make mistakes, than I do with a governement that forces people to live no matter what...unless their death suits that government, of course.

 

[Leebal]

Yeah, tell me about it. Here in Florida, they will do all the possibilies to keep you alive, even if it is neccessary to be in machines for the rest of your pathetic life. What life?

 

[Spinrad]

They only love you when you can't complain.

 

[loriersea]

If the doctors feel it is neccessary, they will do it either by lethal injection or by suffocation without you asking for it.

I find it very, very hard to believe that that is happening. Do you have any substantiated evidence?

 

[Helo]

I want to be able to end my life if I get to a point where I just do not want to go on anymore. If Im 95 years old and cant get out of bed, eat solid food, go to the bathroom by myself, and my mind is completely gone. I want a needle full of SOMETHING thats going to end my life.

My ultimate nightmare is to watch my own mind deteriorate beyond how it normally does when you age

 

[outlaw]

The best insight I have EVER heard on this topic comes form a psychiatrist friend of mine. He said “I do not and cannot condone suicide. It is morally wrong, intellectually wrong and ethically wrong. It is my duty to prevent suicide at all costs. That said I am not suffering form a painful and debilitating disease. If I were I would likely have a different perspective.”

 

[Gracchus]

The best insight I have EVER heard on this topic comes form a psychiatrist friend of mine. He said “I do not and cannot condone suicide. It is morally wrong, intellectually wrong and ethically wrong. It is my duty to prevent suicide at all costs. That said I am not suffering form a painful and debilitating disease. If I were I would likely have a different perspective.”

You and he have the right to your opinions. Under the law you may not have the right to a choice. I don't believe you should have the right to make the choice for others.

 

[Cerberus~]

Yes, I think it should be legalized, but there should be little involvement with a doctor. Euthenasia is private matter for the family to deal with. Not the business of a doctor. I just don't trust them to give a damn, and this isn't a job for someone who doesn't care.

That being said, I think that there should be a little euthenasia kit that you have to go to a doctor to order, and he sends to order to a special little company with their own doctor who reviews the previous doctor's detailed findings, and send the kit to the patient.

I don't want to see a society that values quantity of live and quality of life anymore than I want to see a society that values quality of life more than life itself. They both lead to equally terrifying horrors.

 

[MoonlessNight]

Euthanasia should not be part of a hospital and we most certainly shouldn't force doctors to do it. But I think in a good hospital they will not have an option. If you want to die then you should leave the hospital and handle it. The duty of a doctor is to make you better, not kill you. It's the same reason that they don't amputate people's limbs when they are asked to do that (and that does happen).

I don't support Euthanasia, but the only reasons that I can find for it being illegal are purely pragmatic. And by that I mean that it could be a convient way to kill someone. If it were legal I think that there would be have to be some sort of check on this, though I'm not quite sure what that would be.

 

[reina23]

Think about it.. if there is no hope for the person, should a doctor give the patient a quiet and quick death?

I beleive so. If people want to just end it painlessly, they should be allowed to. It should, however, be limited so that people can't use it for suicide when they aren't physically ill.

 

[reina23]

Also, I think it should be a last resort kind of thing. People should be encouraged to fight for their lives. I would fight.

 

[Autumnleaf]

Some say suffering is a blessing because in such a state we aren't usually inclined to sin and we tend to focus on God to give meaning to the suffering.

 

[Helo]

Some say suffering is a blessing because in such a state we aren't usually inclined to sin and we tend to focus on God to give meaning to the suffering.

When its your bones being disolved and your internal organs liquefying, THEN we'll talk

 

[Cerberus~]

Some say suffering is a blessing because in such a state we aren't usually inclined to sin and we tend to focus on God to give meaning to the suffering.

LOL! Some say the Holocaust didn't happen either, we still call them idiots.

 

[revrobor]

It already is in Oregon. I'm not sure I agree with it in every case.