Are you FOR or AGAINST Euthanasia?

Answer 1

Anyone who is capable of making a rational decision to end his life should have the freedom to make that decision -- and law and society should respect that.

Answer 2

I'm against. First off you don't have the "right" to die. You are given the right to pursue life liberty and happiness not death. Second if Euthanasia was legalised if only as voluntary legalising involuntary euthanasia would only be right around the corner. Why would anyone want to go to the hospital terminally sick knowing that the doctors can euthanize them without their consent. Also, if euthanasia was legalised then the pressure to improve symptomatic treatment would be reduced; prolonging the time it would take to find a cure to a disease. In addition, could you imagine the decrease in social acceptance towards doctors and nurses involved in the practise; they too have lives. And lastly how can you possibly argue that saving pain is a greater good than saving life?

Answer 3

I have a living will stating i would not like to be kept alive artificially if there were no hope of recovery. Then some terminal patient have wished to be aided in suicide as they don't want to live their final days in pain. (there are rumors that is what Jackie O did) Those are personal choices and either way you should let your people know how you feel before a situation comes up.

As far as the new controversy - euthanasia of newborns in Europe - well that is a very fine line - if the infant is suffering and is not going to survive that may be something but one of there arguments is that is will prevent late term abortions if they can euthanize the baby after it is born. What type of logic is that?

Answer 4

Every death is a loss. And in the end, we will all lose. That death may be relatively devoid of pain, or it may be agonizing. It may mean that a person spends their last days communing with their loved ones or it may mean that they are left mentally dead long before the rest of their body catches up.

Given the eventuality of death, when someone is ill beyond ALL recovery and has expressed wishes not to continue living, then euthanasia seems a reasonable option. This is the reason we all should have a living will, instructing those who are our closest kin how we wish to be treated when hope for recovery is extinguished.

What do you think of requiring all high school seniors to complete a Living Will as a requirement for graduation?

Answer 5

For. I think it should be legalized; I personally don't see a problem with it.

It's not like the legalization of Euthanasia means everyone will choose how and when they die. Everyone will still have that choice - I just think people deserve the right to choose.

If you feel it's out of place for people to choose the circumstances of their death, fair enough. It would be your choice if such circumstances ever arrive, God forbid that it will. But your opinion is your opinion, and it shouldn't inflict upon other people's values or beliefs.

Answer 6

Short answer - Against.

Long answer - I am all for a person's right to refuse treatment and the right to die. I am against assistance in that endeavor, in making that decision for someone, or for overruling that person's decision if someone else disagrees. I think that a doctor that gives a terminally ill person a lethal dose of morphine is not helping, and should face punishment. Equally, I think a doctor that violates a DNR (do not resuscitate) order should face punishment.
When we start allowing people to decide who lives or dies, without due process of law (i.e. they did not murder, etc.), we begin to devalue life. Life is more valuable than any amount of money or objects that one may assemble.

My opinion.

Jay

Answer 7

I am AGAINST Euthanasia and Living Wills. My Grandmother was euthanized and it was a horrible experience. Instead of doing a humain way of slowly letting her off her medicines, the doctor did it in one fell swoop. My mother had to sit there, and hold her hand, while she died. She's never recovered from it. You think it's just closing your eyes and falling asleep, huh? Let me tell you, you gasp for breath, you choke, things happen to your body and it's painful! It's horrible and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Answer 8

If a person is allowed to live how they choose, they should be able to die the same way. The government supports the killing of life in it's beginning stages but not it's end? Families are allowed to keep a person alive on life support machines despite the person's wishes, this is "playing God." We cannot be the judges if we have never been there.

Answer 9

I am against Euthanasia. Why take away our suffering when it is so richly deserved with questions just like this?

Answer 10

(at last a good question)
i am pro euthanasia- voluntary euthanasia is not murder, and it is not wrong. to help the dying to die is not a bad thing as they are already dying. voluntary eathanasia shows mercy for those suffering with intolerable pain from incurable disease; and gives people some sense of autonomy; and control over their own existence.
euthanasia occurs already, as doctors can leagally give pain-relieving treatment in doses that will bring about people'd deaths more quickly, and in certain circumsatnces, such as the case of the brain dead or the comatose, we may also withdraw or withold treatments even though the person will die. this should be extended to all who have as near to 100% of death as possible.

euthanasia allows quality of life by allowing at least the end of a person's life to be dignified.

Answer 11

I think it should be up to the individual. I don't agree with euthanasia without real solid evidence for it's need, but to keep someone terminally ill and suffering alive without dignity when they wish it all to be over is a hateful thing to do to someone as well as selfish.