Depends. My Grandmother is 86, she's still got an incredibly smart and coherent mind. But she can't feed herself, bathe herself, go to the toilet herself, walk, move or see properly.
So I think it's tragic that she's still around. It's like the reverse of being braindead, which I think is much worse.
Euthanasia is the technical name for mercy killing, that is purposefully ending a person's life to end their suffering.
ie. elderly, cancer patients, terminally ill etc
Hmmm perhaps I should have added a few more poll slots for leaning one way or another...as I belive I lean towards for but stand against becuase the legislation and regulation and decision making processes involved in actually implementing a euthanasia program are not practically possible as things stand in the world today.
Also, my mum has to go around and care for my grandmother (her mother) full time and do all kinds of shit. Emotionally it's tragic, physically it's the most draining and it's not the best of sights either, some of the stuff she sees.
Now, she's been doing that for her mother for 16 years..........16 years. That's longer than some of the forum members here have been alive and there have been EASILY under 50 days when she has not done that work. Under 50 days off in 16 years.
As much as I love my grandmother I would welcome her death. Because it's almost brought on the emotional death of my mother and our family has nearly been broken up due to the amount of sheer stress she gets under from it. The worst part is, she never complains.
So yeah, Euthanasia in for the most part gets my vote and unless you've been through what my mother has first hand or been around someone like it, I don't think you can speak on it logically.
Only if I can decide for MYSELF. To do this to someone else simply because they are old or infirm is wrong IMHO and smacks of Big Brother. Now if a family member has requested this while still lucid then Id support it.
"why dont they put her in a nursing home, or get her a care taker"
A care taker? She's not a lawn that you go to, mow and then go home. She's a human being.
It's a little thing my mother does, called loving her mother and wanting to be there for her until the day she leaves this planet. Which is why I'd rather it be sooner than later (although isn't near 17 years too late?) and why I approve of Euthansia is certain situations.
ah the issue gets tricky real quick...therein lies the rub....euthanasia can be the means to ending much suffering and pain, but the potential for system abuse is phenominal....who gets to make the decisions? Does MR. Filthy stinkin rich's greedy son get to decide whether dear old dad is ready to be offed??? Where is the line between able and unable drawn
"Does MR. Filthy stinkin rich's greedy son get to decide whether dear old dad is ready to be offed??? Where is the line between able and unable drawn"
I think you just answered that. I think there should be a form, similar to a release form, "in the event of zero quality of life that so and so be allowed to terminate my life." Obviously way more specific but with that essence.
Because:
1. it is murder (ev. as goes official term help with comiting suicide)
2. how can anyone know that the next day the person is killed they won't make a cure for that disease? (i know that the possibility of that is not very high, but still there is some)
I am for it in very, very controlled cases, and I think its very important that the person in question be the one to make the decision, after all there are states of life that are so terrible that it is a preferable to die, and it be your decision, then live on in remarkable pain. And I don't support the argument "but what if they find a cure the next day?" It is pretty much unheard of that one day a researcher just fines a cure, in fact I have never heard of such a case. And when there is a prospective cure which, may, say cure cancer, it wont hit the shelves over night. With all prospective medicines there is usually months of testing, if not, as is more common, years. Tested on animals. The limited tests on special human groups. Long periods of analysis of results. If a person is at a stage where euthanasia is a desired option, then the promise of a cure years of is of little comfort.
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"2. how can anyone know that the next day the person is killed they won't make a cure for that disease? (i know that the possibility of that is not very high, but still there is some)"
More of a personal con of Euthanasia than a logical one, isn't it? To each their own.
It should be entirely the persons own choice and there should be a legal document for each person stating under what conditions they would wish to die, to live little or no margin of error.
I think it is wrong.And most of the time I heard that they just kill that old person who is suffering without asking him or her first.To me it is murder.
JM
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