Is there an arguement for voluntary Euthanasia?
For example, a person dying from Cancer or a person who has become so incapacitated that there life has no meaning.
That is to say that they cannot move, communicate vocally, or otherwise, sustained perpetually on life support.
There is a film starring Richard Dreyfus called "Who's life is it anyway?" Where due an accident he is paralysed from the neck down & has to spend his life in a hospital supported by machines. He argues that he should be able to decide for himself how he wishes to live or die. We put animals down "Humanely" but why do we let people suffer unecessarily so. I think if a person has to spend there whole of their remaining life either in severe pain or not have the ability to make or communicate a decision for themselves, where there life is only sustained because of the decision of others, provided that the person can by any means possible communicate their wishes be given the option to end their lives with dignity.
2006-09-22
04:43:15
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