should euthanasia be made legal ?

Question

euthanasia/mercy killing

Answer 1

This is a legal issue which has not been decided yet even by the Supreme Court of India whether euthanasia/mercy killing should be made a constitution right under Article 21 of the Constitution of India. In one of its landmark judgment the constitutional bench of the Supreme Court had taken only this view regarding this issue "A question may arise, in the context of a dying man,
Who is, terminally ill or in a persistent vegetative state
that he may be permitted to terminate it by a premature
extinction of his life in those circumstances. This category
of cases may fall within the ambit of the 'right to die'
with dignity as a part of right to live with dignity, when
death due to termination of natural life is certain and
imminent and the process of natural death has commenced.
These are not cases of extinguishing life but only of
accelerating conclusion of the process of natural death
which has already commenced? The debate even in such cases
to permit physician assisted termination of life is
inconclusive. It is sufficient to reiterate that the
argument to support the view of permitting termination of
life in such cases to reduce the period of suffering during
the process of certain natural death is not available to
interpret Article 21 to include therein the right to curtail
the natural span of life." After this opinion of the learned Supreme Court of India unless the legislative government brings about any law that qualifies the act of euthanasia legal it will remain an offence under the penal law of the country. The question whether the legislature should bring such law is debatable & a proper public debate is required, where all the aspects should be brought about & a conclusion be formed if in favor of the act of euthanasia then on which conditions it should be allowed & under whose orders or supervision.

Answer 2

It depends on the situation. I think Euthanasia should be made legal for people who are suffering day after day, and who will be suffering for the rest of their life.
But, i don't think it should be made legal in India because of the corruption and all, where people are made to leave the hospitals just to empty the beds even if they are not well.

Answer 3

It should be, In Certain Circumstances.

If it can be shown that a person has a terrible quality of life (e.g. constant pain) and that they have no hope of recovery; that all they can look forward to is a drawn out negative experience, then I think that is a clear-cut case for allowing a person to decide for themselves what they want to do.

There are dangers here - people who are merely suicidal can be helped and should not be granted the right, and it can be hard to tell who is not just under the influence of this kind of thinking. Hospitals should never do it as a way to clear beds for patients they see as having more hope of recovery. Patients will not always be able to give their consent or retract it if they wish, if they are disabled. Once it becomes an established practice, it could become commonplace to have an appointed person speak for you that would know your wishes should you prove unable to express them.

But I know that no one has the right to sentence me to a long agonizing death or a slow disappearance of my mind just because they believe it it somehow right for me.

Answer 4

yes,but not my life sucks so I'm gonna checkout cause I don't want to deal with it. It should be legal,more than just legal understood and accepted that those who have lived and are losing or lost the ability's of basic personnel care should have the right to leave this world with dignity.Having watched three grandmothers,parents of friends,other family members wither away not knowing who what or where from the effects of dementia while the greedy get rich feeding off of the needy selfishness those who wont let go.
other than dementia one thing all these people had in common and wanted was the desire to go home.each of them knew that their time was here but couldn't leave.they accepted that their usefulness had become uselessness. they understood that their time here was over and they welcomed death for it was the beginning of their eternal life.

Answer 5

Making it legal is admitting mans failure and inadequacy.

Imagine making it legal to commit euthanasia back in the days of small pox, chicken pox, syphilis, gonorrhea.....or should i say before the discovery of antibiotics and penicillin.

the fact that we haven't discovered a cure now ,does not mean that there is no cure, we just have to be patient.

Answer 6

Yes, under certain circumstances.
But with the consent of the individual if he is conscious and his relatives together with certified medical opinion.

Answer 7

depending on the circumstances, one shoud not be able to walk into a hospital and say ok im ready to die, but if the person is terminally ill and in a lot of pain, then it should be their choice

Answer 8

No, never. Who knows when can one be cured.Besides this law is likely to be misused.If at all somebody can't be cured and is feeling a lot of pain he/she should be given painkillers.

Answer 9

No, if there is a law protecting old, needy and poor people. If there are no safeguards in place to protect them then Yes,