if you talk about people in tremendous pain and they can deceide for themselves, you should definitly go for it... murder or whatever crap people come up is bull since you do what they want and do them a favor by stopping the pain.
problem comes of course if they aren't capable or are in a coma and such... then again, the law provides the answer. We have a law for it over here, but I can't remember what's in it anymore
suicide is generally condemned correct???? I've chosen to cast my vote with those against euthanasia because I still believe the potential for abuse of the system is high.
Pain and suffering, emotionally are a part of life....they are entities that make a person or break a person. Chronic pain is horrible, add it to the long list of things gone wrong.
why is it that pain would be a factor in allowing someone to committ suicide?
If you were burned in a terribal car crash and all of you skin was almost burned off and you had to undergo many surgeries and years of physical therapy, and even then you would be bed ridden and imoble incapable of doing anything, would you rather be Euthanized and go peacfully and pain free, or go through a few more painfull and stressful years?
I don't really get why it's against the law to commit suicide... that seems a little over the top to me.
I don't really know exactly what Euthanasia is.. But I do have to say that if I was extremely elderly and in pain and just tired of living, I would want the option to be able to kill myself. I mean sure suffering is a "part of life" but if I don't want anything to do with life anymore than why should I still have to suffer?
Ummm if my vocal cords "blew up" I'd probably be dead and this exchange would mean nothing. But for the sake of argument, I can't write, type, or speak....can I move??? I would use one of those special hospital thingies that allow people to answer yes and no and insist that someone else ie mom, dad, someone....read to me....I'd watch movies...I'd eat....er intraveneously....I'd do the best with what I have
lol....well I'm in pretty sore shape then eh...who's this evil they...they'd need a good longue lashing...wait I can't speak...oh welll, hope my family will give it to 'em for me.
Seriously, I maintain my previous answers...I'd either flip and be beggin someone to off me....or I'd struggle through life, grumbling, complaining, perhaps cursing in my head, but I'd be alive....alive to dream, alive to think, alive.
I guess thats the point, some people would go on, and be determined to hang on to life, no matter how terrible such a life is to them, while others would appreciate the chance to go out peacefully, and as they seem to believe, with dignity. And its true, pain and adversity are a part of life, but for most part not the pain on the level of an incurable, debilitating disease, and not the adversity of something you have no chance of over coming.
All depends on your value for human life I guess. In my opinion being alive doesn't mean you're living but some people get anal and think everything alive is important.
However I think if you're alive and have absolutely ZERO percent quality of life, you should be able to have that kind of release form.
-AC
euthanasia, fair?
Do you think its fair?!
I think that you shouldn't get arreseted for it, I think that it should be legal but may be someone should be there to witness the right of the person who wish's to die, to make sure someone isn't killing them off for their money.
Its different because people can kill themselves and theres no punishment of course, I think that if someone is so ill that they can't do it themselves, and there is no way of living then they should be able to end their life in their way, peacefully and not dying a painful death!
i think it was already discussed in GDF
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=315136