2006-12-13 07:48:31 · 22 answers · asked by kissmybum 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
absolutly. I've watched people die. there si no honor, no integrity, and nothing beautiful about it. I know how bad it was for me and I can't even begin to imagine what it was like for them.
those against tend to have not seen the horrors of it. I understand people not agreeing due to morals, but you can't restrict someone else based on your morals
2006-12-13 12:33:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes!!!
Think of it this way - should anyone be able to tell a terminally ill patient that they don't have the right to die?
2006-12-13 15:51:44 · answer #2 · answered by maguire1202 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
They should not have the right of being "put to sleep", like Kevorkian did. However, I am a strict Catholic, and I believe that a human should be kept alive by all natural means.
I do not believe a feeding tube is natural; however, many in the church do. My cousin went through chemotherapy, and I would rather die from cancer than pay to have doctors poison me like that.
That is not a natural death.
2006-12-13 15:53:34 · answer #3 · answered by i hate hippies but love my Jesus 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
YES if they are never going to get better and be in pain all the time yea its your body and your life and i not think that any court or judge or anyone else have the right to tell you about your life i thought that we had freedom of choice the right to decide about are self
2006-12-13 16:07:36 · answer #4 · answered by twilla l 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, all who are terminally ill should have the right to die with dignity.
2006-12-13 15:52:38 · answer #5 · answered by AnnieD 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
yes I do. I watched my mother die of bone cancer it took until her rib cage finally just caved in on her heart when she finally died at like 80 pounds, Her legs back rib bones had virtually turned into like sand. I would not wish that on my worst enemy. No-body should (knowing it is coming) have to die such a pain full death. I would not want to go through it and I wouldn`t want my family to watch it either..
2006-12-13 16:00:18 · answer #6 · answered by hardhead 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes. If a woman has the "right to choose" what happens to her unborn baby (another human being) then terminally ill people should have the "right to choose" what happens to their own body (which is the same right that defends abortion).
2006-12-13 15:55:44 · answer #7 · answered by smellyfoot ™ 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
if its a natural death...(example: taking off life-support, allowing someone to die naturally (not performing any life-saving techniques))...
However, giving someone something..or starving someone is killing them...not letting them die naturally.
To all those who are saying that humans have no right to live in pain...please see the movie W;t (Wit)...it is about a women who goes through a terrible death by cancer...she suffered alot but she died a beautiful, natural way. It would have been heartbreaking for the doctors to give her something to die.
It's awful to think that humans lives are of no value when they can no longer be "fixed". We can not decide when someone dies. Human life is valuable until the end. At no point do we have the right to say, 'Yes, this life is no good anymore...so we'll just kill it'...some of you will argue that no one wants to live in pain...very very true...but humans have a dignity to the end. Killing them would be disrespecting their dignity. However, letting them die naturally is allowing them to die the way they were meant to...allowing them to live with their pain...allowing them to have strength and love for life...
P.S. Humans are NOT DOGS! No one deserves to die like one.
2006-12-13 15:57:07 · answer #8 · answered by Natalya 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It would depend. But I do not think that they should be "put to sleep". If their only means of living is by artificial means, then I think the family members should disconnect them from those means.
2006-12-13 16:23:28 · answer #9 · answered by surelycoolgirl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Absolutely. I believe they should also have the right to have others enable an act of suicide. BUT the volunteer must be the one who actually commits the suicide. Just my viewpoint.
2006-12-13 15:55:36 · answer #10 · answered by bob h 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋