Do you believe in euthanasia?

Question

What's the descrepency?

Answer 1

Yes, I believe that euthanasia should be an option for human beings. I believe that the individual should have the choice to end their own life with medical assistance.

When a pet is in pain with no hope of recovery, we consider it humane to end their suffering via medical means.

When a person is in pain with no hope of recovery, we consider it our obligation to draw out their suffering for as long as possible via medical means.

I don't see the logic or the compassion in that.

A question to Debra and others who believe that God alone has the power to take life - aren't the doctors interfering with God's will by going to extreme measures to keep people alive in the first place? By using tubes and wires and machinery to keep a person alive who would otherwise die, isn't that blocking God's will to end that life?

Answer 2

I don't believe that people should have the right to decide if someone else has the right to live or die. Many people turn away from their family and friends who are sick, often emotionally abandoning them under the guise of "I wanted to give you your space." I don't understand the problem if a person is terminally ill, *wants* to end the suffering and is mentally competent enough to make that choice.

Of course, the other side of this issue is abuse. How would anyone know if a person was coerced or threatened into signing the necessary paperwork? How would one know if a deceased person was murdered or not if papers were falsified? These kinds of questions make the original issue harder to nail down. If they can be resolved, the question is answered.

It's very easy to argue about the "right to life" but very few people are willing to allow others the right to make the choices they see fit for their own lives. Why does "freedom" only apply to those who are willing to conform to the majority rule?

Answer 3

I do, but only under extremely limited circumstances. I freely admit that I am a Christian, and understand this is controversial.

My sister is an attorney/trauma nurse/military officer (I know, a very strange combination), and also a Christian. She has described certain conditions to me that are fatal, but not immediately so; because the patient's pain cannot be adequately controlled with any known medication, these poor folks suffer HORRIBLY until they die a terrible death. Most plead for death to take them, but they hover somewhere in between for days, weeks or months.

As a compassionate society, what does it say about us that we have no mechanism to end this person's suffering? Didn't God say, "I desire mercy and not sacrifice"? (Hosea 6:6a; Matthew 9:13 and 12:7)

I agree with the termination of life support to a person without brain waves, since this person is medicolegally dead. However, as long as a person has active brain waves, I do not agree with euthanasia under any other circumstance; I believe this amounts to murder.

Just my two cents.

Answer 4

I work with elderly people and brain damaged people in a nursing home and I believe that all life has value. I can not personally condone euthanasia. I believe that God gives life and He alone should take it.The people that I have seen love their lives and do not wish to leave any earlier than they must.
Peace Be With You,
Debra

Answer 5

I do believe in that to soften a painful death.If done out from request ,a favor out of goodwill to the person concerned to help him out of his sufferings, why prolong death when it's inevitable sooner or later anyway?!
I believe for as long as we are sensible to know what's best for us,we have the right to decide what we think is the the most preferable way to exit earth being under those difficult circumstances.
Discrepancies only comes into picture when it's done out of malicious acts in the hope to get an inheritance quicker than normal for example then it's no longer refered as mercy-killing but in laymens' term it's called murder.

good day!

Answer 6

very few human beings get to die on their own words. And it extremely is relatively puzzling to foretell what the circumstances of ones's loss of existence would be. There are circumstances wherein i think of the main humane component to do could be to manage an overdose of morphine. yet it extremely is against the regulation. I even have considered peopl die of maximum cancers, and the administration of discomfort is a issue, extremely whilst the scientific professionals do no longer desire to danger the affected person's getting addicted. it extremely is a daft place whilst a individual is basically days from loss of existence. There are different circumstances wherein persons are critically handicapped yet whilst they are fed, saved hydrated, and handled humanely, they are in no hazard of loss of existence quickly. it extremely is a different concern an no longer so sparkling decrease. it extremely is easy to declare somebody else does not have a qualiity of existence if that individual can not refer to precise his/her own ideas. And too regularly, human beings anticipate that when somebody can not talk, he/she can not think of, hear, understand, or sense. In maximum of those situations, it extremely is basically no longer real. The be conscious "coma" is used too regularly whilst the affected person is by capacity of no capacity in a coma. i think of being dehydrated to loss of existence like Terri Schiavo became over 2 weeks is a bad thank you to die. If the selection is made to end a individual's existence, the act might desire to be achieved humanly. Even prisioners on loss of existence row are actually not placed to loss of existence by capacity of dehydration and kidney failure. no be counted if it extremely is euthansia or assisted suicide, it extremely is a very complicated subject. it would help if medical doctors talked overtly approximately how human beings die, how lots discomfort is in contact, what alternatives there are, and so on. yet medical doctors do no longer try this. human beings might desire to talk extra overtly approximately loss of existence themes between themselves so as that they might understand what happens.

Answer 7

No. It is wrong to take a human life however you justify it.

Answer 8

Not at all. It is still murder either way you look at it. Just like abortion. It is still a life that you are killing.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

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