Do you believe in assisted suicide???

Question

If a person is terminally ill, for example, should he/she have the right to end his/her life???

Answer 1

Yes. only in the case that they are going to die anyways and they will only suffer in the meantime. They also must be coherant enough to make that decision for themselves. No one should be forced to live in extreme pain. By pain I mean physical, mental, spiritual and emotional

Answer 2

I believe that your life is yours to do with as you please. Only God should be the one to judge. As for assisted suicide of a terminally ill person,just be sure before helping because a lot of times when people are that ill they are not in command of their total minds. Medicines they are taking can distort their thinking processes. They may think they are doing the right thing because other people can't handle their illnesses, and they want to put other people out of their miseries not their own.

Answer 3

While I don't work with humans, I am an emergency vet tech and assist with euthenasia's on a regular basis. I think of it as being merciful to the one you love...ending the pain that unfortunately won't kill them, but can go on for a long time before their passing. I don't think of it as murder or suicide, since the person is dying already. It's adding a little dignity and alleviating an unimagineable suffering.

(Last week, we had a dog that the owners refused to put to sleep that had tumors all over it's body. It was in so much pain, that the morphine drip and several other pain meds we were using barely took the edge off it. She just lay screaming and whining the entire time before she finally died on her own. It was awful and brought many of us to tears. Putting her to sleep would have been merciful.)

Answer 4

I support it, just today I was thinking Dr. Kevorkian never should have gone to prison, and wondering--it is totally inevitable at least someone involved in prosecuting him--the judge, members of the jury or their families, the prosecutor--somebody--will fall ill with a horrible disease and be wasting away hopelessly and in pain and they will wish to God there was a merciful person like Dr. Jack Kevorkian there to end the pointless agony for them. Its a classic example of conservatives, who say Get The Government Off Our Backs, using Big Government to force their own morality on everyone else. Too late, they will realize their mistake.

Answer 5

I find it interesting that other people know me better than I know myself. They obviously know what "God" thinks what I should do, however, not everyone believes in God and are we all so self righteous to think that we should try and proselatyze everyone into seeing things our way? Maybe people are so insecure that they have to throw their weight around by stating that God says this and God says that. Well, it doesn't really affect me or some others for that matter if I don't necessarily believe in what other believe is "God". I have my owns views, if I am on my death bed, and I cannot tolerate the pain for whatever reason, I should have the right to decide what to do with my self and my body, particularly if know that whatever affliction I have will deny me the ability to remain a contributing member of this society. What is a life being tied to tube and suffering pain day in and day out? If people think that this is a life, they can have it, stay the hell out of mine and don't tell me what I should and should not be doing and I will stay right out of yours.

Answer 6

Absolutely,It is painless and it is a personal choice. Kovorkian's system works the same way as Lethal injection for this sentenced to death by the criminal justice / Judical system.
If an individual is in unbearable pain, it can bring a sense of peace and end the needless suffering. Even after 12 years in the Catholic school, and years in medical training. It's personal ethics and beliefs.

Answer 7

Yes, they should. Having a living will doesn't always cover all issues that come up. Why make someone who is ill, who has no hope for recovering, live out what time they have left in pain and suffering. We have more consideration for our pets, who can be euthanized, than we do for terminally ill people.

Answer 8

Yup.
I also believe in Stem Cell research.

I guess I'm a bad person =)

For the idiot below; Hospice does not kill people you moron. Assisted suicide is like Jack Kevorkian helping people to die by injecting them. Hospice aids people in accepting death (mentally).

As my mother said, "There are things worse than death." I watched it with both of my grandparents. It would have been easier if assisted suicide was legal. Some people want to go and yet it's not "their time" (allegedly) so they suffer for years...in horrible agony. If this happens to me, I am so buying a hand gun. =)

Answer 9

I see nothing wrong with it . If fact I think that people on death row should be assisted as well. But for people who are terminally ill, and are in pain , why drag it out . If they want to die , LET THEM , freewill is a choice .

Answer 10

Suicide, assisted or not is always wrong.BUT sometimes it is understandable from a human point of view.What God thinks of it is a totally different matter.It is not for us to decide what is wrong in this case.I have never been in so much pain as to wish for death.Only one that is or has suffered so much can give insight.