Euthanasia: Do you Approve or Disapprove of it and Why!!??

Question

What are your thoughts on this matter!!?

Answer 1

I approve of assisted suicide and euthanasia. Assisted suicide involves the patient requesting a prescription then the doctor writing it...that's all that is done. Euthanasia is where the doctor directly administers the lethal dose.

Currently it is acceptable to pull the plug and allow the person to suffocate or starve to death. It is more humane to quicken this death when they will die anyway. I support euthanasia under the same restraints in which pulling the plug is allowed.

I support assisted suicide because there are numerous diseases for which we do not have adequate cures or pain management. When the pain and suffering becomes too great the individual should have the ability to request assistance with dying. Laws are already in place to allow this to occur in Oregon. I have seen the paperwork associated with applying for assisted suicide and the process they must go through. It involves evaluation by more than one doctor. Additionally I think only a handful (well less than 20) have used this since it was made legal. For the most part, allowing a person the option of assisted suicide just gives them back dignity and control of their lives...even though quite a few probably won't make the actual request.

I don't think there is room to claim slippery slope on either of these issues as long as we create adequate guidelines for their practice. It is also important to remember that assisted suicide or euthanasia is not a solution to the problem of pain management. It's just the best option from some until we are able to develop adequate pain management techniques.

Answer 2

End of life decisions are very sensitive.

"The ongoing cycle of materialism within the culture will now, hopefully, be evident. The advocacy of of euthanasia seems to be related directly to cultural materialism, which assumes that the quality of life for the elderly,the terminally ill, and the vulnerable is very low. This conviction has driven many within the culture to pursue a new option, a new freedom, which at first glance, may appear to be compassionate, but in the final reckoning not only undermines compassion but also puts incredible pressure on the economically marginalized, the depressed, and those with low self-esteem to commit suicide. The pressure will be felt even though most people in this situation would reverse any such desire for suicide if their pain and depression were properly treated. The grand irony of this "new freedom" is that it is creating an UNNECESSARY, UNWANTED, pressure, if not DUTY to die. If I am not mistaken, death is the end of freedom. Hence, this new freedom is producing an unnecessary , unwanted duty to end freedom.

The harm of euthanasia is not limited to individuals. It is also producing three devastating cultural effects:

1. It accelerates the culture's obbsession with a view of freedom, love, ethics, self-worth, happiness, success, and suffering.

2. It undermines our ability to suffer well and therefore to grow from suffering.

3. It allows a radically false view of "compassion" to eclipse its true, profound meaning frounded in the highest dimensions of empathy."

Answer 3

I believe that people should be able to die with dignity, taking whatever steps they require to minimize the suffering they must endure due to sickness.

If I had a debilitating disease, I would hope that those who truly loved me would respect my wish to die peacefully and with dignity rather than being forced against my will to be kept alive with no quality remaining in that life, just because some group or other feels that their views on the situation are the only right ones.

Ultimately, however, no-one really knows what their decision would be unless they are actually faced with that dilemma...

Answer 4

Euthanasia is either suicide or murder, the only advantage is that the person inflicting it has support.
But allow nature to decide when to end one's life ! It is always a better judge on matters of 'life and death', considering the very limited capabilities of humans in understanding nature!

Answer 5

I approve. Death is the only right someone else can not take away. Allow others to die in peace and in pride. When the body can not help itsself and degrades, what kind of life is that? Living on tubes and machines and heavy pills and ****? I would rather kill myself and have LIVED a life...than continue to nurse off the medical institutes and just merely EXIST.

Answer 6

The Ocean of Tao
Cannot be called an ocean
For there is nothing else to give it name.
There is no sky above it,
No earth below it,
No shore that surrounds it.
And so it "is".
And yet, "it" is not.
For what is "it" if there is nothing else?
And so there is only "one".
And yet, there is not.
For "one" to be, there must be "two".
And there is not.
There is only entire.
And yet, there is not.
For to be entire Is to measure complete.
And can there be measure Of what has no beginning or end?
Void of name; Void of substance; Void of measure.
Such things define nothingness-
But only if such things "are".
And, since the "are" not, What is?
Everything and Nothing-
The Ocean of Tao
That can not be called an ocean,
or even Tao.

Answer 7

I can not support euthanasia, even though I fully understand it. However I do suggest that it is ok to manage pain and let nature take its course.

Answer 8

If the person specifically asks for assistance then I will make it possible for them to do what they feel is necessary but I would not allow a family member or religion to make that call because no one else has to endure the pain so they should not prolong it either.

Answer 9

When the person has been a vegetable for years together, its ok. If the patient suffering opts in for that then its ok. You know, sometimes its very hard for the people suffering and for people seeing their loved ones suffer so much. Its hard to answer. I wouldn't wish such a situation even on my worst enemy.

Answer 10

If it is controlled then I approve.

I watched my friend's mother die. The most horrible death. She was suffering from cancer and they tried everything under the sun and the moon and the stars. Prayer, medicine (all types). She wanted to be euthanized but her church wouldn't allow it. My friend almost hit the Pastor (he was an arrogant sob) for saying that his mother was suffering because she was a sinner.