What do you think about the right to die?

Question

wow... a lot of well thought out answers! It is really going to be hard to choose a best answer...

Answer 1

as i get older, dieing has a different connotation. I do NOT want to lay in a bed racked with pain...i do not want to be artificially kept alive beyond a point where i KNOW LIVING
longer is useless.
I do not want to be institutionalized in a place where i am prevented from ending my own 'journey' either. I want available to me any..every means of ending my life myself when i am READY...i do not want that option removed from me on the asinine assumption that other peoples lives are going to suffer because i off my self.
At my age, suicide is a mature and conscientious consideration, not a spiritual sin, or cultural insult, or family tragedy...i don't give a **** what religion says.

Answer 2

I just did a 10 page paper on this for my senior english class. The correct terms for "the right to die" are euthanasia and physcian-assisted suicide. I think that if someone is in that much pain such as medicla problems like cancer and such and they don't want to go on living anymore then they should have the choice of dying (physcian-assisted suicide) but I do not aree with the form of euthanasia where the patient has no say in the process. If a doctor and/or the family are the ones to decide without the permission of the patient I think it is wrong. These are things that most people descuss with there families if they know they are terminally ill or they could just have tht discussion if anything should ever happen to them that way its not something they have to think about for a while when the time comes.

Answer 3

I just put my dog down after fifteen years, she was blind, deaf, her every step was agonizing, she had lost bowel control almost a year ago. She fell down the steps twice in the past week and couldn't get up. I had her put to sleep because it was by far the kindest thing I could do for her, there was no medical miracle in her future, and all I could do was prolong her suffering.
I couldn't do that for my mother-in-law, whose cancer made it impossible for her to eat or drink, certainly not to care for herself, or even for the last two weeks to do anything other than wear a patch for pain because she couldn't swallow pain pills. All she did for two weeks was moan in a drug induced haze. If you think that's in some way humane than you have to see it, smell it, clean it, feel your heart turn inside out with it. When there is no hope for cure or even remission what difference does it make if she died more comfortable two weeks earlier? If one chooses for whatever reason to go on like that for the pointless reasoning of some strange religious idea of God liking or needing or appreciating our earthy pain then when its your turn you can do that, but don't make that decision for someone else, that's cruel, and trust me when I say you have no idea what you are talking about.

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Answer 4

What seems strangest to me is that it is Christians, who believe in a wonderful afterlife in heaven, seem to have the biggest fear of death. Terry Schiavo's parent claimed to be Christians, but were scared of death. The Catholic Church considers it a cardinal sin to commit suicide. Why? Why not let people go to be with God?

Of course, the Catholic Church also opposes abortion, contraception and fertility treatment. You cannot unmake a baby, you cannot prevent a baby from being made and you can help a baby be made and you cannot end human life period. It is an "all natural" philosphy.

Answer 5

We all have it already. The question should be though about the method. Assisting a death wish is the issue, because some people who want to die don't have the strength or stomach to off themselves.

Answer 6

It is the only God given right an individual has that can not be taken away by anyone. An individual can take away another persons rights against their will at any time, but they can not take away that persons right to die. No one can keep you alive forever.

Answer 7

it disturbs me that people are not allowed to choose when seriously ill like that woman with moto neurone disease or something she should have been allowed to die like a big nasty heroin overdose or whatever she wanted.

id also like to add that i think the same about research on peoples organs when they are dead, you shouldn't need a doner card for that, it should just happen. they don't need organs for a funeral do they and they could hep save someones life.

Answer 8

I think if we are unequivacally sure that person wants that, and it is a terminal illness situation, we should respect their opinion.

I hope it never comes to that, but my father has repeatedly made it clear that he doesn't want to live past his ability to enjoy life. He keeps asking us to promise to help him end it if that happens. So far I've deflected promising, but I don't think it should be against the law.

Answer 9

A person should have the right to die. But this is very serious and the person should go through counseling or something.

Answer 10

Well a womens right to choose is legal, meaning that they can destroy a would be human, so why do we try everything in our power, including restraining someone when they are trying to kill themselves?