2006-11-06 18:01:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm very glad it's legal where i live.
2006-11-06 18:06:00 · answer #1 · answered by Thinx 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do people still believe in taking someone off life support when all brain function has shut down and their relative has specifically stated that they don't want to have their lives prolonged if they (the relative) end up in a vegetative state?
I ask, despite your questions, because as far as I know euthensia is the use of drugs to end a life, while the taking off life support leaves a person to die "naturally"
2006-11-06 18:06:02 · answer #2 · answered by spirenteh 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I prefer euthanasia over what happened to Terry Schiavo, they pulled the plug on her. But she wasn't dying, so she basically died of not getting water and food for a LOOOOONG time, vegetable or not that's just wrong. If someone doesn't die in 10 minutes you pull the plug, then something is seriously wrong. And that Bill Frist? Idiot, I don't even know he became a doctor.
2006-11-06 19:04:55 · answer #3 · answered by chicachicabobbob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do, but I beleive I am in the minority. I hope by the time my turn comes, it will be much easier and more accepted, but I doubt it. We will euthanize a beloved pet, but a suffering, diseased human must breathe every ragged breath. When my Dad was dying of lung cancer and in unbearable pain, they made him sit up (much more painful for him) every day and they wouldn't give him enough medicine to ease the pain because it would kill him. They let him suffer a month like that before the cancer went to his brain and he had to suffer more great pain in his head and spoke gibberish because the cancer went to the part of the brain that affected his speech. They let him suffer like that until finally a merciful doctor gave him enough medicine to ease his pain and help him get a little rest. Within a day, he developed pneumonia and passed away. It was a horrible way for him to die at only 52 years of age and a traumatic, life changing horror for us to watch him suffer. I don't want to put my family through such pain. At around age 50, they should offer a "little black pill" that would be available when you felt it was your time.
2006-11-06 18:15:28 · answer #4 · answered by butrcupps 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's my life and I'll die when and how I want to, baring accident. Hanging on to scraps is no life, especially if you're already "gone" and it's your sicko relatives who can't let you go all the way. I prefer dignity over vegetable or suffering or addled on morphine.
2006-11-06 18:04:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is legal in many states. If the person really wants this they can go to one of the states where its legal. This way it's not done just so someone can get rid of them.
2006-11-06 18:09:17 · answer #6 · answered by Tedi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, but very soon, this will be used on old people, and handy caped, a anyone who can not be productive,
But if a person has the choice of it for quick death if they are going to die, and have no faith that God can heal them, its all choice,
someone has to make the decision,
But it is murder, ether way.
2006-11-06 18:10:55 · answer #7 · answered by Faith Walker 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I totally do since I'd like to have that choice for myself if it ever came down to it.
Taking someone off life support is a bit different and kind of tricky...
2006-11-06 18:07:56 · answer #8 · answered by Pico 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure. If someone chooses it in response to a permanent condition, it's their life and their choice.
2006-11-06 18:04:41 · answer #9 · answered by angk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do. Too bad it's not legal where I live. I just hope I never need it myself.
2006-11-06 18:02:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋