i want to know the reason
2007-03-21 17:24:46 · 13 answers · asked by Jun P 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Yes. Why should I be forced to suffer pain and misery when I could end my life with dignity? We give more compassion to animals than we do to humans.
2007-03-21 17:26:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think, it should be allowed. My grandma died from cancer. She WANTED to die during the last month of her life, she expressed it multible times. 2 weeks before she passed away, she collapsed in her home and was brought to the hospital - she didn't wanted that. She knew, she was going to die, but she wanted to die at home.
In hospital, they put her on nutritional infusions, despite her wish to let it go. She suffered nearly 2 weeks through unimaginable pain, the morphine already didn't helped anymore. They still left her on those nutritional infusions, though it was known, that there was no more hope and that those infusions would only make her suffering longer. She had pancreal cancer.
She wasn't able to talk anymore during the last days, but you could see in her eyes, that she was only just waiting for her heart to stop working, but her heart was too strong and than those infusions on top of it.
Finally, on Big Friday 2001, she passed away. It was a relief for her and though I was sad for her being dead, I was also glad, that she didn't had to suffer anymore.
Ever since, I'm pro assisted suicide. If there would have been assisted suicide, she would have been able to go without that senseless suffering, in the peace of her own home, surrounded by her family. She didn't deserved this pain and this agony.
2007-03-21 22:56:13 · answer #2 · answered by Chevrolet*Blazer*Girl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont think so. in the first place, there are no clear parameters for one to be considered terminally ill. even doctors' opinions vary. that's why so many patients seek a second or third or even a fourth opinion. any number of specialists-doctors cannot justify the concrete and unanimous conclusion that a terminal stage has been reached. second, miracles do happen. and third, doctors are there to save lives not delivering patients from prolonging their agonies
2007-03-21 18:31:22 · answer #3 · answered by spraytt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
~Terminally ill means they WILL die, just more than likely an agonizing, long, drawn out death. The first answerers answer is true, we are more humane to animal's suffering than our own. I agree with financial reasons, but mostly the suffering.
My grandpa was dying and hooked up to life support and wasn't expected to make it through the night, but he kept on living. He was suffering and asked me and my mom to unplug him and we were too selfish to do it. I wish I could undo that.
When he did die, he had no tubes down his throat and was gasping for air. He could have been pumped up with meds, then taken off life support. I know that is different from what you're asking, but you do see my point?
Most of us will get old, lets hope we aren't also forced to prolong a painful death.~
2007-03-21 17:54:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the terminally ill patients should have the right to die pain-free and with dignity when they are ready. I've seen the alternative and it's not pretty.
2007-03-21 19:58:58 · answer #5 · answered by Lake Lover 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and I have always felt that if someone is ill and having a painful existence and WANT to die, that it should be honored.
Dr. Kvorkian was a saint as far as I am concerned. He got a bad rap.
If I am ever in pain, I guess I'll have to do my own self in, unless the law changes.
2007-03-21 17:36:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do, particularly for patients in extreme pain and with dwindling financial resources that would leave their survivors fighting to pay their medical bills after they die.
2007-03-21 17:27:42 · answer #7 · answered by sustasue 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not think so. The doctor who does it is commiting murder, no matter what the justification. The next step would be aborting abnormal foetuses. N in the future this would further move on to a level where children of bad criminals are aborted when they are still foetuses.
Where does it all stop?
2007-03-21 17:31:46 · answer #8 · answered by byd 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I do not believe there should be a single universal law that applies to all cases. Each individual case should be thoroughly examined and ruled upon by an ethics committee.
2007-03-21 17:29:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Without question neither you or anyone else besides myself and my doctor has a right to make such a determination.
2007-03-21 17:29:29 · answer #10 · answered by Samuel T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋