I'm doing a persuasive essay on assisted suicide and I need as many opinions as possible. Are you for or against euthanasia for the hopeless and terminally ill? Explain. Thank you all so much.(pleas don't report me for posting the same questions in a few different catagories. this isn't just a question to be a dumb*ss. I really need opinions.)
2006-10-11 00:13:34 · 12 answers · asked by KS 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
I'm not sure if everyone knows, but physician- assisted suicide is when the person asks to be put out of their misery. Usually doctors can give them lethal doses of pain medication and the patients choose when and if they take it themselves
2006-10-11 00:29:59 · update #1
I'm not sure if everyone knows, but physician- assisted suicide is when the person asks to be put out of their misery. Usually doctors can give them lethal doses of pain medication and the patients choose when and if they take it themselves
2006-10-11 00:31:15 · update #2
Being a cancer survivor who was told they were terminal by clinical means...I am definitely against euthanasia...If I had listened to medical people and not gone onto natural therapies, I would not be alive today..(now, those same natural therapies are being used by the medical profession)!!..Big turn around, dont you think.....TAXOL being one of them..I have been cancer free now for many years and proud of my stubborness and arogant posivity !!...So, I guess you have another analysis to make now..good luck with it.....
2006-10-11 01:07:50 · answer #1 · answered by ozzy chik... 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am sorry to hear you are doing an essay on something so painful. I am against assisted suicide...I think that there is always hope and new courses of treatment. The problem is people around them can be impatient sometimes. They may have financial worries or medical costs issues. If the person really wants something like that I feel they should have a long waiting period....I feel they should interviewed over and over again.....Someone should look into their lives and see what is causing these thoughts...Do they have mean relatives? Is there someone who wants a divorce? Did they lose their ability to do a thing they enjoyed the most? Meanwhile, the person should be supported as much as possible...I feel they should encouraged to contribute something last minute to the world. If they have the energy to pursue a suicide request this means they can probably also do something else. It should also be carefully monitored about the pills they are taking too. Are they known to make people feel that way? In other words I feel the whole picture should be looked at. Not to mention the fact that by nature we want to survive not give up until we are taken.
2006-10-11 07:28:35 · answer #2 · answered by rosezealous 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am against euthanasia. I work in a hospital and see all the benefits that modern medicine has, and how far we've come in the ability to prolong life. But with this greater power comes greater responsibility. It is not up to man to decide when someone should die, but that is the divine and sovereign right of God. We are not God. The most common argument I hear for Euthanasia is quality of life over quantity. In my professional opinion, there are many advances in medicine daily that could help the person whose quality of life is greatly diminished and give them some amount of normality. That's what Christopher Reeves believed (superman), and that's what I believe. Especially now with the genetic research going on in stem cells and embryonic cells.
Besides, it goes against the Hippocratic oath doctors must take to allow a patient or assist a patient to die, when you have the ability to do differently.
2006-10-11 07:20:59 · answer #3 · answered by firerookie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm against euthanasia. I think it's murder, plain and simple. I certainly wouldn't want to be in front of God almighty as a doctor who preformed assisted suicide and have the Lord judge me for what I had done. Scary.
2006-10-11 07:16:39 · answer #4 · answered by CJ 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
mankind is the ministers of God's will.. im not sure of this, but a teacher said that the voice of the doctor seem to be the voice of God, for he will end the suffering of the person who is ill immediately...
but on the other hand, im am actually against euthanasia. i jusst post it, in case the opinion of a professor might help...
2006-10-11 07:32:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am against euthanasia.For some, it is easy to say that they are for it.However, if we ourselves would be placed in the position of those who have loved ones, that are "clinically dead", it's difficult to do so.Miracles are just on the corners of this world, searching for worthy people.Why don't we have unending hope and love for the one who is suffering?it is not really that hard to wait.remember, God answers only three words, Yes, No, and Wait-for He has something far more better than what you are expecting..
God Bless
2006-10-11 07:43:09 · answer #6 · answered by orange_soda 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am against euthanasia, I don't think anyone has the right to take anybody's life..whatever the reason may be!!
2006-10-11 07:22:24 · answer #7 · answered by docecil 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think I'm againts euthanasia.. Coz life is a precious thing, and no man has the right to take it away from you..
2006-10-11 07:26:55 · answer #8 · answered by my_lee_sha85 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think that probably I would like it to be done to myself if I were terminally ill, but I couldn't kill anybody... But - if sb, for instance, according to strict conditions, had such a will written or sth - maybe law should respect it...
If life is all pain - why to suffer so much?>
2006-10-11 07:17:44 · answer #9 · answered by Lady G. 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
life is a wonderful thing and all types of suicides are wrong. in my opinion. It should be left in God's hands and it is not our decision to make.
2006-10-11 07:32:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋