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If your love one was in a coma for a a long time, would you still continue the life support? or have them remove the plug?

2007-04-01 03:35:32 · 9 answers · asked by Keith 2 in Health General Health Care Other - General Health Care

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If they were in a persistent vegetative state with irreversible brain damage and the machines were the only things keeping them alive, I'd pull the plug, but that's not really euthanasia.
If someone was terminally ill, with no hope of a cure and their remaining time was nothing but unrelenting pain, I'd say give them the option of ending it themselves (assisted suicide).
I would not want to euthanise a perfectly healthy human being just to free up resources.

2007-04-01 03:45:45 · answer #1 · answered by Resident Heretic 7 · 1 0

Yes pulling the plug is Euthanasia. It is Passive Euthanasia.
I am for it.
We have to defend that cause when we are young. A lot of elderly people keep asking and begging for some means to put an end to their sufferings, but nobody listens to them thinking that they are not in a normal mental state.
As they are weak, they can't defend their cause to put an end to their life. Nobody would listen.
We have to decide about that from our young ages, to avoid sufferings later in life. But usually nobody cares about that, thinking that suffering would always get somebody else, and not them.
I hope this problem will be considered at a higher level, and not only in small discussions like on Yahoo answers.

2007-04-01 14:27:23 · answer #2 · answered by Suzan K 5 · 0 0

What you are asking about is not euthanasia. Personally if I was a vegetable I would want my family to pull the plug on me. I would not want to "live" like that. I don't know what I think about euthanasia, but I do find it odd that we are more kind to animals (pets and laboratory animals) when they are suffering than we are to humans.

2007-04-01 11:09:11 · answer #3 · answered by pobrecita 5 · 0 0

Disconnecting life support is not the same as assisted suicide.

I am anti euthanasia.

I am also against keeping a person alive artificially.

2007-04-03 04:41:55 · answer #4 · answered by clcalifornia 7 · 0 0

There are a lot worse things than dying. Life without interaction is a prison. Ask the patient to respond to the question with a blink or a squeeze. Look over your relationship and others with the person and in your best judgement ask yourself, what would they want?

2007-04-01 10:44:53 · answer #5 · answered by TBEAR 2 · 1 0

IF and ONLY IF my loved one has written a living will and made it clear to myself and others they wanted to die instead of being on life supports would I make that choice. If nothing was in writing or every mentioned I would continue to keep them on machines to prolong their time here on earth. It is not up to me to decide for anyone if they shall perish or live. It is a personal choice.

2007-04-05 10:41:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Discontinuing life support is not the same thing as euthanasia.

2007-04-01 10:38:57 · answer #7 · answered by Neil Budde Sucks Ass 2 · 1 0

it depends on the situation, sometimes we need to do what we have to do, know what im saying? i am a firm believer of preservance of life but keeping someone alive when he/she is in such unthinkable pain or the unevitable, we have to do what is humane.

2007-04-01 10:48:00 · answer #8 · answered by diane, RN 1 · 1 0

If you're a catholic, you should know that mercy killing is a sin.

2007-04-01 10:41:06 · answer #9 · answered by wicked1 2 · 0 0

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