2006-07-04 23:26:23 · 15 answers · asked by jean 1 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
When an individual is faced with some insurmountable medical problem with no hope of recovery, I believe that the decision should be theirs to continue or not. To force someone in this situation to continue to suffer in an effort to justify our own feelings and beliefs is the height of conceit.
Naturally, the person should be demonstrably in control of their faculties and making a rational decision regarding their own life.
2006-07-04 23:39:07 · answer #1 · answered by 63vette 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is the question "Does an individual has an innate right to die?" or is the real question "Does an individual has an innate right to die when they are no longer able to live a functional or quality life?"
If a person is in good health and able to lead a quality life, they might have their self-given right to die but they do not have the moral or ethical right to die. Suicide is not an option.
If, on the other hand, they are involved in a serious accident and they will live the rest of their "life" in a vegetative state, why shouldn’t they have the right to die. Fortunately, we have the legal right to create advanced health care directives. This gives us the legal right to stipulate how much life saving measures we want taken in the event of major accident or illnesses.
If a person has untreatable cancer where they have less than a year to live and they have a heart attack, should the paramedics perform life-saving CPR? With the Advanced Health Care directive, the person has made their wishes known before the fact. Some will say, “I want to be saved” and others will include a DNR (Do not resuscitate) because they live in enough pain as is and they will welcome death at the soonest moment possible.
There is also the issue of euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. In some countries, euthanasia is an accepted but most countries have adopted laws prohibiting it. Again, if a person is living in extreme pain and discomfort and they want to die because there is no medical hope of them getting better, who am I to condemn them to the rest of their life in pain. I think that it should be their choice.
I hope this answers your question adequately.
2006-07-04 23:49:58 · answer #2 · answered by mgctouch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seeing as there is no such thing as an innate right to live I can't see why there would be an innate right to die. But, maybe I'm just wearing the wrong spectacles.
2006-07-05 00:31:38 · answer #3 · answered by aw3s0m3g1rl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From the moment we are born, what are we doing except dying? No matter how great or exceptional people are on earth, everyone's fate is the same in the end. Yes, everyone has an innate right to die: it is what we are born to do.
2006-07-05 03:11:26 · answer #4 · answered by KT 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As hard as it is on family members that are left behind, it is a choice that a person makes. I know this from experience: my father and (on my mother's side) my grandfather. Both suffered from severe depression after their wives died and took their lives. I was afraid of where a soul of a suicide person went after death and came across an article. Many think that they go to hell for the act that they committed, but I completely, 200% disagree. God forgives murder (although it is a sin) - suicide is self-murder...how could God not forgive this? Most people that take their lives suffer from a mental illness. If our God is a forgiving God, why would He punish those that are mentally ill? Those who have not felt suicidal do not understand the intensity of the pain that one feels, the loneliness, the drained and feeling of emptiness.
2006-07-05 02:51:06 · answer #5 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has been said that we are not humans having a spiritual experience, but spirits having a human experience.
I love those who have passed on and remember well. Those who have suffered great pain and agony why should I ask them to endure all this so that I feel good within myself. Let them be brave while they face the most trying times of their lives as I believe that it is somethng that one faces on their own let them go in peace. REMEMBER THEM.
We all live in fear of death and yet it will come. How? know one knows!
2006-07-05 00:14:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that a person does.
Ironically suicide is the only crime that you can succeed at and never be punished for.
It would also make sense if they would allow prisoners to commit suicide.
Again Ironically.
If a person on death row is very sick the prison has to do everything possible to save that persons life.
Then when the time comes they put that person to death???
Why not just let them die???
2006-07-05 02:07:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We never die, the soul keeps transmigrating from one body to another, this body is like a company car we can use it but we can't keep it, at death, all the elements stay behind and you can't take it. we can choose to keep dying over and over, or we can chant Gouranga and get out o the cycle of birth and death
2006-07-04 23:31:45 · answer #8 · answered by Humble Bee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This country is funny. If you want to die, then DIE, so other can live, then maybe we have a chance to sustain to live more than 100 years. LOL.
2006-07-04 23:33:32 · answer #9 · answered by quang d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No !!! Never !!
The God punishes people ending thier lives in a very bad way !
It is the best way to get one of the worst punishments from the God !!!
2006-07-04 23:34:49 · answer #10 · answered by James 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋