Does your suffering dog deserve more sympathy than your suffering grandma?

Question

Ever notice that if a dog or pet is suffering tremendously people have the decency to put them down, but if a person is suffering we make them suffer thru it as long as their bodies will hold out.

Actually it is about quality of life, not age or contribution to society. Euthanasia is about ridding ourselves of "dead weight" which I entirely disagree with. My grandma in 78 and thoroughly enjoys her retirement which she damn well earned.

But thanks for trying to confuse the question.

Answer 1

I agree. When my mother was dying she asked for a "puppy shot". She had to suffer another 2 weeks before she passed away.

Answer 2

Your lead-in question was interesting, & I was prepared to answer as-is until I saw the details. I am APPALLED at one of the answers: "...euthansia mind set..." We can be "humane" with our animals because they're considered "property." Not so with people. The best I could do was put some details in my Living Trust, but it's up to the doctor really, & isn't the ethic to keep people "alive" even if they're suffering--or brain dead? Give me a break! I hope I get struck by a bolt of lightning. At LEAST, as Medical Power of Attorney, I was able to demand the oncologist give my painfully dying husband more morphine. (Don't you know that stuff is ADDICTIVE?) Even the nurses wanted to, but they had to have the "order." You know how controversial this is, don't you? By the time I've typed this, heaven knows how many obections you'll receive to the VERY IDEA. I'm with you all the way. Too bad Dr. what's his face can't spell his name--stepped over the line. He helped a lot of people.
I'll tell you one thing--I wouldn't hesitate a moment to "pull the plug" on someone I cared about, who was suffering/dying. SORRY! I guess I just tripped on the cord!!!!

Edit: Big Jimi makes a point, although it's weak. There is no law, no NOTHING that hasn't got inherent "abuse" in it--has that stopped "us" on many other issues?

Answer 3

Euthanasia is the way to go. The only reason the government won't allow it is that they want to get all your money before you go. If they cared they would give the elderly health care at affordable rates. Many elderly are dying every day. You just don't hear about it because people think they would have died anyway since they are over 65, but the truth is they can't afford the drugs and keep their homes. So, why live if you will lose everything you worked for just because you are old. Is that supposed to be kinder?
MSUZYQ- My heart goes out to you. I've been there. My grandmother had Alzheimer's disease for 10 years. It scares the life out of me that I may get it too. My husband had a heart attack and we spent over $9,000. on health care in one year, and that's with insurance and a drug plan. This year will probably be more. Young people have no idea what lies ahead of them. The government just keeps helping the drug companies, and health providers, while people die. If we don 't get some kind of health care in this country the middle class will be wiped out. Is that supposed to be kinder?

Answer 4

The problem with putting your dog and your grandma in the same category is someone makes a decision when they should be put down.By beginning a practice of putting people down you open the door to where it may go.Do you put down any elderly person,retarded people of any age,criminals,who decides as to who will be the undesirable ? While I agree that yes,a person should have the right and decision to end there own life in the situation mentioned in your question,we are not ready as a people or society to enact laws which could be bastardized!

Answer 5

yeah, that's because humans are the highest form of life, and people don't agree with mercy killings, and also back in earlier days, people didn't survive as long, there wasn't the medicine or technology to keep people alive. Now there is, so there's a lot more controversy. Also, in today's society just being 70 is still considered young. 80 now is old. Trust me, I know, I'm living through it right now.

Answer 6

My family is facing some tough choices right now. My dad has Alzheimers, is in a nursing home. He was an active, hard working man, now he is in a wheelchair, can't talk, and is losing his swallowing ability. A feeding tube, would keep him alive...but for who? For us? To prolong the inevitable? He will never get better, only worse. We could continue with the life saving devices, but when will we say "enough is enough"? It breaks my heart, to see him. I talk to him, hoping he hears me. I hug him, hoping he feels me. His body is giving out, it's a natural progression of the disease. I feel like it would be crueler to try to keep him alive.

Answer 7

Yes I have noticed that. I have also noticed that people will get a pet and if it gets diabetes or some other ailment, they will have it put to sleep instead of taking care of that animal. It makes me wonder what they would do if their child or spouse ended up with diabetes or cancer...would they say..oh well..we don't have the money to take care of you so you will have to be put to sleep.

Answer 8

Yeap,because a pet can't speak for themselves,we make the decision for them that we think that is good for them.
For human,its against the law and somehow,people believe miracle would happen eventually,but most of them,it didn't

Answer 9

I definitely have been clinically determined as bipolar with generalized stress sickness, melancholy and agoraphobia. If i did no longer have my canine i could be ineffective. i do no longer desire to be residing, yet I additionally love my canine lots, i could no longer kill myself and depart her on my own. i be attentive to no individual who could take her and shelter her like I definitely have. and she or he's a senior canine with some persistent well-being issues, and who could take a canine like that. I definitely have seen killing us the two on the comparable time, yet I definitely have feared i could kill her and that i does no longer die after which what could take place, i could desire to be hospitalized. And, too, if I died and she or he did no longer, it could be back to the comparable subject of the place could desire to she pass. whilst i'm having a tough time she merely will come over and take a seat next to me. And my agoraphobia supplies me some 2-block radius that i will walk her. yet whilst i did no longer have her, i does no longer depart my homestead ever. I order in each thing. whilst i'm depressed, she retains me company, whilst i'm demanding, she calms me down. as quickly as I cry, she merely sits pressed next to me. whilst she does those issues it makes me concentration on her and not what i'm at present feeling that could nicely be effectual in some situations. each so often i think under pressure whilst i be attentive to she desires to stroll further yet I walk to a close-by park this is a block away and enable her play and sniff approximately. i be attentive to for a fact that if i did no longer have a canine, i does no longer be alive. Even in the worst of my ailments I definitely have favourite having a canine and what she does for me in the way of help.

Answer 10

Nice try, but this soft sell will not work for your euthansia mindset, regarding people who don't have a so-called "quality of life" according to a liberal, arbitrary standard.

I say this, because you speak of people "putting their pets down" instead of treating their pets, so I'm assuming you mean that grandmas should be "put down" as well.