this system is applied in Holland, they kill the desperate patients of hopless cases and desease of very bad prognosis after their consent.. as the movie Six milion dollar baby directed by Clint Eastwood..i am against this..
but in patients with 4th degree coma(brain stem death) who lost their respiratory function and they will never regain their concious, we ask their families if we can switch off the ventilator to easr their death.. this issue is confusing me.. tell me what do u think about the 2 issues i posted of merciful killing
2007-01-22 22:11:11 · 4 answers · asked by ♥ 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
I DO NOT BELIEVE IN EUTHANASIA. My teaching and my experience in the profession is that we should give the patient ALL the chances that Medical Science has to offer and leave the rest for the ALMIGHTY to do His bit.
The brain ,as you well know Isadora, is still the 'black box' of the human body and I personally think we only know a fraction of it though there are enormous amount of researches in the pipeline.
I believe that today we are successfully challenging medical situations and conditions that were elligible for euthanasia only 50 years ago . Look around eg in today's Cardiac Surgery and Neurosurgery. Now look into 20 years from now!
Hope these answer your questions.
Best Wishes
2007-01-25 20:07:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is an ethical difference between actually killing someone versus just letting them die. doctors pledge to "do no harm." so it's unconscionable for a physician to paticipate in lethal injections, for instance. even in a case where a patient was suffering, an ethical doctor would do everything possible to relieve the pain, but wouldn't actively seek to terminate the patient's life. of course, there's lots of grey zones here- it's not all black and white. for instance, in the case of terminally ill patients in severe pain, we'll sometimes give large doses of morphine to treat the pain- but also knowing that morphine causes sedation and repsiratory depression, it's quite possible that the patient may just go to sleep and stop breathing and die peacefully. also, removing life support (ie: taking someone off a ventilator) is not viewed as "killing." again, letting someone die painlessly is fine with me.
2007-01-23 14:57:29 · answer #2 · answered by belfus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I essentially disagree for the government to tell me or my terminally ill relative that I can be locked up in prison should I decide that I don't want to go on.
My dad went through two years of hell before passing away, they did their best to cure him but when it was evident that he was not going to make it and that he was suffering untold pain and his existence became undignified then he should have been allowed to go instead of being artificially kept alive to endure more suffering. (read: artificially, or unnaturally, or playing God against nature)
He could still understand and when asked, he motioned with his eyes that he wanted to die, but this was illegal so he (and all of us) suffered 2 years of untold pain, many days and nights shrieking like a goat that was peeled alive. My mother couldn't bear leaving him in an hospital so she had him at home, and she almost died with him through the exhaustion of 2 sleepless years.
You can only understand these issues when they happen to you and when you see people in hospitals that reek of feces and nurses are nowhere to be seen, "twice a day" they say so in between changes they soak in their own waste.
2007-01-23 06:27:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
xtremly sensitive issue i dont beleive we as humans have the right to give and take life away for that reason only i cant do euthanasia then again i dont like speakin too loud coz the pple feeling the pain in their bodies also have a right to their opinion though i think its wrong
2007-01-23 06:17:27 · answer #4 · answered by ladyluck 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋