wheres the logic. i love animals and all but why are people punished when they put their suffering loved ones out of their pain?
2006-11-23 12:20:19 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
i meant euthanise
2006-11-23 12:22:24 · update #1
Because people seem to have this crazy notion that no matter how much pain and suffering someone is going through, they ALWAYS want to live. Since this is obviously not true, they'll be damned if you try to change the way they see the world.
Oregan's Death With Dignity Act is a fantastic bill and it will just be a matter of time before more states begin adopting similar legislation.
2006-11-23 12:36:02 · answer #1 · answered by ModerndayMadman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel that if a person wants to be finally relieved from the massive amounts of pain they are from such a situation as a terminal illness, that they should be free to make that decision.
Unfortunately our society does not place as much importance on an animals life as it does a humans.
2006-11-23 20:22:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's pretty obvious that the person should request it and then they should get it, but no one cares that the animal is scared of the euthanisia this matters because if it scared that's a will to live and shouldn't be put down.
2006-11-23 23:32:07 · answer #3 · answered by Sainteh 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't make any sense to me either. Humans should have the choice to end their lives when afflicted with a painful terminal illness. But Christians believe that suicide is a sin so the "moral majority" won't agree to it.
2006-11-23 20:22:47 · answer #4 · answered by Shane 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Animals are not protected with laws unlike humans. There must be legislation to strengthen animals rights particularly on eutanasia.
2006-11-23 20:22:49 · answer #5 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question, but I think when it comes down to it, the state feels that animalsdont have a soul and can always be 'replaced'. But I have to agree with you, they should be the same thing, kill either, there should be a punishment.
2006-11-23 20:24:10 · answer #6 · answered by Cheez_Mastah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A very good question but too sensitive for any politicians
to handle just like gay marriages. No one wants to jeopedise their careers on this issue. Doctors also have
their own sets of ethics to follow and to top it off, it is an
offence to commit suicide.
2006-11-23 21:52:53 · answer #7 · answered by CAPTAIN BEAR 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WOW - great question!
Probly cuz with a person one can lock them up in a hospital or jail (if the person was in so much pain that they sought comfort in a once-legal and ubiquitous plant); and then claim those shut-ins - errr "patients" have rights, and demand that those rights be provided for monetarily.
"Monetarily" There's yur answer.
2006-11-23 23:24:59 · answer #8 · answered by sincere12_26 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Canada they are currently fighting the laws about this, but at the moment it is still considered murder to take another persons life
2006-11-23 20:22:37 · answer #9 · answered by gg 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are other considerations. Time of death is important in a lot of cases for legal reasons by artificially altering it you can affect all sorts of things
2006-11-23 20:29:44 · answer #10 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋