How do you feel about the legalization of euthanasia?

Question

Is your opinion affected by your beliefs, gender, age or any other factors? If you can, please explain how. Please also state your age. This is for a survey for a school project so please help me if you can... ;-) Thank-you!!!

Answer 1

After watching my father die from a bunch of ailments and hearing stories from my husband watching his mother die of cancer, I am for it. BUT I think it should have a lot of different agencies involved, meaning more than the doctors directly involved, include a third party physician, a representative from the probate courts, the patient's attorney, wishes written in a will, statements from family (for opinion purposes only, since a video recorded will stating wishes is so powerful) and have periodic hearings in court over the status of the patient. I wasn't able to do anything for my dad. Day after day he was in and out of consciousness, even found by others passed out on the floor at his home. He refused to live with anyone or anyone living with him. We asked the hospital to help us and they said he was mentally fit. Finally someone called protective services thinking we were neglecting him and they did an investigation of my dad's health care and his inability, mentally stable or not, to make wise health decisions and he was put in my care. I had moved him to a nursing home for rehab (he didn't sleep more than 3 hours at a time, took medications wrong and his diet and hygiene was a train wreck). By the time the courts got involved the damage was irreversable and we had to take him off life support 4 months later. Dad said he didn't want his life to be one big doctor's appointment. If he couldn't be in his garden he didn't want to live. We miss him but we can't remember him without thinking about how he suffered his last 2 years. Kevorkian is still in prison, getting out soon, he's less than an hour from me. My dad spoke of him a lot. Link to Jack here: http://www.state.mi.us/mdoc/asp/otis2profile.asp?mdocNumber=284797

Answer 2

I see that no one answering before me has addressed keeping someone alive with modern technology when there is no hope they will ever have areasonable life in the future. I totally want my life to be ended in such a case. I am 70 years old and reasonably healthy but I am starting to be treated as if I had no brains left and since I can no longer work at a paying job and therefore not produce anything I should not be around taking up space.

I think it is a horrible thing to do to keep a baby alive who was born with no brain. Yes euthanasia is an important part of living.

Answer 3

I feel just as strongly on for and against euthanasia.

I think for my self thou born and raised Roman Catholic. I truly believe do to others as you would have done to you.

I strongly believe I should not be forced to accept current medical treatment if I choose not to.
I should not be forced to unquestioningly put my self in the hands of a physician. They have you sign a paper stating that the physician makes the medical decision from the moment of signature.
I have not seen chemo therapy nor surgery nor radiation effective in the treatment of cancer and would not want to be subjected to all of these and have my life end anyway.
I want the final say in what treatments I am given.
My main goal in obtaining medical attention is the alleviation of pain and not for extending my life.
I want to be able to pick a doctor that has this and only this in mind.
I don't want to be kept alive for the only purpose of saying my brain is not dead yet.

I don't want to give anyone the right to decide this but a doctor that only concern is my quality of life if kept alive.

This issue needs to remain between doctor and patient just like abortion. No one should ever be involved but you and your doctor.

To make laws governing this either way would be harmful. Some doctors will play God with the power of the law behind them.

I am 47 years old and I have faced this decision already in my life when my husband and I were faced with his pending death.

However, I hold the doctor responsible for not treating his pain adequately. This to me should be treated as a crime. In this day and age to cause a man to suffer when so many pain relievers are available is a heinous and unforgivable crime.

Answer 4

Completely for it. I work in health care so I have an intimate relationship with reality of how not only the comatose but more importantly the elderly are treated and how their old bodies break down. Health care tries to "cure" these people. Its false hope. They should have a right to let their suffering end. It much more sad to see people die a slow agonizing death than to see someone be able to actually say goodbye to their family members when they are still coherent.

Answer 5

If you are talking about euthanasia of human's then I am against such a thing. This would be playing God. It should not be up to ANYONE on this earth HOW or WHEN you die...
A law like this would be subject to abuse. How would you then regulate who dies? How could this NOT be abused by the criminal element??? You need to watch an "old" movie called "Logan's Run"...it is about people having to be euthanized by age 30..they have an implant on their palm that changes to a certain color when they get to be 30...and this is how they are identified by the "Sandmen" who seek them out and send them to be killed...two people manage to escape this world...it is a fascinating movie...and one what would help you tremendously in your survey...

Answer 6

I think euthanasia is a terrible thing. I feel the same way about it as I do abortion. It is murder and should never be legalized

Answer 7

totally for it after also nursing and seeing patients waiting to die with no hope whatsoever,becoming helpless and loosing your dignity,life turns in a circle and with age you become like a helpless baby again

Answer 8

I believe no one has that right except God in His own time.

Answer 9

we shoot horses don't we,old enough

Answer 10

wheew>>!!!!!