personally i'm strongly in favor of it, as long as it's always voluntary. i don't know how you can oppose it other than on religious grounds. it seems that mental health professionals (psychiatrists) are almost ubiquitously against it, and that really pisses me off. they just want to make psych patients out of perfectly normal but suffering people.
COMPLETELY against it.
Life should be respected from conception to a natural death.
cheater wrote:
COMPLETELY against it.
Life should be respected from conception to a natural death.
says who?? you?
a person's life is his own property
Gold jacket, green jacket...who gives a shit?
It should be a basic right for every man, woman, and animal.
marijuologist wrote:
says who?? you?
a person's life is his own property
Dude, he was asked for his view.
Chill out.
I wouldn't want to be the Dr. going through with the assisting, but I would agree that it is the right of the person suffering to end his/her own life.
I cannot figure out why this is illegal but abortions are happening everyday.
If it were legalized, it would be abused by people who didn't really need it. Kevorkian kills people who are truly immobile using humane means. These people are in constant pain and their lives are limited to a bed or wheelchair. They have limited, if any means of communication and no strong relationships that have not gone awry.
I feel like the people who claim mental need for physician assisted suicide would ruin it for the rest. There is also no boundary as to what does and does not warrant this assistance.
In sum, this will never be legalized and there are just too many holes in it to support.
Some general rules have to be set up but like a DNR you should be able to make your request and expect it to be carried out.
Health Care Proxie and DNR should be part of your health record with you carrier, SSI and you Doctors. Info should be on your your Drivers License like Organ Donation wishes.
Very much for Dying with Dignity.
Yup, as long as one's wishes are explicit on the matter I don't see why it should be illegal.
should be allowed.
in the u.s., people are living longer, but the "suffering index" has gone up. basically, we can keep a body "alive" for a long, long time. sorry, but once grandma and grandpa go to the nursing home, at that point they become an income stream and the nursing homes will do everything that they can to maintain a pulse.
I am for it, as I have always been struck by how easy it is to put a pet "out of it's misery" yet so difficult to to the same for a human loved one.
If you think the here-and-now is all there is, and this is as good as it gets, and if life stops being fun (ow, my leg hurts) it's time to end it...sure, why not?
traxor wrote:
If it were legalized, it would be abused by people who didn't really need it.
Since people could only do it once, it would be impossible to "abuse"...
Reddy Kilowatt wrote:
If you think the here-and-now is all there is, and this is as good as it gets, and if life stops being fun (ow, my leg hurts) it's time to end it...sure, why not?
That is trivializing the issue. Obviously, PAS should not be used for someone who simply has some unpleasant aches and pains. But what about someone in a vegetative state? Terminal cancer?
And yes, some people believe that this life is all there is and there is no utopic afterparty in the sky. And people who believe this obviously do not believe that their life is the sacred property of God Almighty. So why should they forced to prolong a life that has become no life at all?
It's funny to me that the pro-life folks are against euthanasia, because it's "unnatural" or it's "playing God". But they are perfectly comfortable with the idea of someone being strapped to 5 machines that keep them alive in the hopes that they'll miraculously spring back to life. What is natural about that? And speaking of miracles, I also think it's funny that "believers" call it a miracle when doctors do bring someone back, but when they can't and the person dies it means that God "took them home". Rationalizations and justifications.
Pamela Andersons Left Nipple wrote:
traxor wrote:If it were legalized, it would be abused by people who didn't really need it.
Since people could only do it once, it would be impossible to "abuse"...
Do you get the point that I was trying to make? People who don't need it will try to get it and inevitably some doctors will allow them to go through with it.
And yes you can abuse something by doing it only once. Think child abuse. Doesn't matter if you rape/beat up the kid only once.
Its very wrong.
If a person tries to arrange a physician assisted suicide for themselves its like attempted murder. They should get the death penalty.
LMAO!
traxor wrote:
People who don't need it will try to get it and inevitably some doctors will allow them to go through with it.
yes, doctors are just going to nonchalantly kill people for no particular reason...
personally, i wish they would... starting with people like you...
I think it should be legal. Whether I want to continue living or not is my choice. As long as the person is of sound mind, of course.
And not to trivialize the issue at all, I think it being illegal is kind of ironic when we live in a country that supposedly allows us all the freedom of choice, to choose our own destinies. To me choosing to die is no different than choosing to live, yet we're not allowed one of those options.