2007-02-12 07:58:58 · 5 answers · asked by Giggly Giraffe 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Euthanasia is actively killing a person in order to end his suffering. Rejecting overzealous treatment is refusing to be hooked up on artificial life support when there is no real hope of recovery.
I am against euthanasia, but I have put into my will that I do not want extraordinary means to be used to keep me alive.
2007-02-12 08:03:35 · answer #1 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Refusing treatment is passive, letting natural process take their course.
Euthanasia is active, hastening death by introducing a foreign substance or denying a basic need (air, food, water).
2007-02-12 16:02:56 · answer #2 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the difference between active and passive. There is a place for heroic measures, and a place where they are only marginally postponing the inevitable. Surely that is clear. (?)
2007-02-12 16:04:10 · answer #3 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rejecting treatment is letting the illness or age take it's own course, which would happen if not for intervention.
euthanasia is purposefully making someone die.
2007-02-12 16:02:57 · answer #4 · answered by nickname 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"overzealous treatment"???? what does that mean?
2007-02-12 16:02:42 · answer #5 · answered by Tanya Pants 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋