why is euthanasia bad?

Answer 1

Is there really such a thing as good and bad, or are they labels for different perspectives on the same issue? Mercy = good; killing = bad; mercy killing = controversy.

Answer 2

It's bad because no one can really be trusted to make that decision. There are too many different situations/details involved. I don't think anyone should be able to make the decision when to 'kill' someone unless they have consent from that person. Even then, how do you know if the person is thinking clearly at that moment? Because of that, living wills are VERY important. In the Netherlands, people are allowed to specify when they might want euthanasia in the future if stuck in a particular medical situation. As far as I know, Americans don't have that option, all we have is the Do Not Resuscitate or 'pull the plug on me' options. I don't think we have anything that covers what to do when we are in absolute pain, unable to recover but able to live without being hooked up to a machine.

I don't think it's fair for someone to continue suffering slowly while waiting for death when they would WANT to die just to get it over with. A lot of those people commit suicide but some of them can't if they are stuck in a bed and being monitored 24 hours a day. They are trapped in a living hell and are not 'allowed' to get out of it. The 'bad' thing about it is that it would have to be 'assisted suicide' which would require that someone kill them. Basically, someone would have to volunteer to be their 'murderer' and that's not cool. If they are able to commit suicide on their own, then that is only their choice and it doesn't involve anyone else. When you're talking about euthanasia, another party has to be involved and the situation gets sticky because other motives may be present and you can't trust every person that 'helps' to euthanize someone else, especially when it's someone who may be no longer able to think for themselves.

I wish I could add a 'euthanasia' section to my living will. I'd add that if I was in severe and untreatable pain, unable to communicate with people and dying with no chance of recovery that I be euthanized. My only fear is that the person who chooses to euthanize me may feel like a murderer since, they would be the one to end my life. I suppose that's the 'bad' thing about euthanasia- someone has to kill someone else.

Answer 3

Because it's difficult to draw the line about which people should be euthanized, and which shouldn't, and people fear that the ability will be misused once it's made legal.

Here's an example: You are the person who says who lives and who dies. You control the fate of an elderly woman who has a painful, terminal disease that takes a long time to progress. She is condemned to suffer for 6 months or a year, or maybe more, while little can be done to help her. She needs constant medical care by a qualified nurse just to stay alive. She is poor, so her care has to be paid for by the government, and she's occupying a bed in an intensive care unit that could be used to treat a person who will eventually get better and become a productive member of society. She has dementia, is combative with her doctors and nurses, and has no family to visit, care for her, take her in, or help pay the bills.

Should she be humanely be euthanized?

Now start changing or removing the problems above, one by one, and answering the same question. At some point, make her rich, and give her several greedy relatives who stand to inherit her wealth.

Whoops - do you euthanize her so that she feels no more pain, or hold off because her greed relatives are just there to get some money?

Your next person is a baby, born with most of his brain missing. The brain stem keeps him breathing, but that's it. He can't eat. He can't see. He cries for no apparent reason, for long stretches at a time. He will never, never get better. His parents are traumatized, depressed, and about to divorce because of differences over how they feel their child should be treated.

Which way do you decide?

Oh, one more thing - another baby was born with a congenital heart defect. The first baby has a healthy heart that could be transplanted to the 2nd one, and save its life.

Now what do you do?

Answer 4

Are we talking about people here?

Here is the short answer why euthanasia is bad.
People are sacred (special and set apart from the rest of creation), created by God with a soul. (The part of us that recognizes God and desires to please Him). In the Bible, He spoke, writing the 10 Commandments in stone, to be followed absolutely in order to stand honorably before Him. One of those commandments, says "Do not murder / kill" another person.
God also said that anyone who breaks even one of the 10 Commandments will, after death of the body, live within their soul tormented in hell.

To euthanize = to purposely kill another person.
Now, would you want that on your permanent record with God?

Additionally, this is the same reason people are so against abortion - believing that once fertilized, the human egg / embryo is just as much a person as any full-grown adult is, having a soul.
Abortion is considered the euthanasia or killing of a human being, of a sacred Soul, created by God.
Therefore, the penalty, according to God, would be to live eternity in hell. People who try to stop women from purposefully aborting genuinely are concerned that these consequences exist - and that there is so much more at stake than a mere "choice". Genuine Tears are cried for the mother as well as the baby.

Answer 5

Humans are instinctively afraid of dying.

When we are younger we think we will live for ever. We cannot imagine anyone wanting to die.

When we are in our middle age we are busy. We cannot imagine being unable to function.

When we become older we strugle to hold on to our youth. We cannot imagine anyone who has given up that struggle.

When we are very old and tired we have lost the strength to die peacefully, and no one else is willing to help us.

Answer 6

It's not 'bad' per say, It just depends on what you think of it. There's no saying whether it's good or bad, because people have different opinions on it.

Answer 7

Its ok to do it with animals, but not with humans. Its comes down to a social norm. whats not accepatable today may be later on . LOOK at homsexuality, and canabilism to become popular in the future

Answer 8

well why dont you go to the vet ask for it and find out and tell me, wait you cant your DEAD

Answer 9

Same reason suicide is.