Do you see any difference between abortion and giving someone with severe alzheimers a lethal injection?

Question

Neither one has the ability to reason or choose. They both can be a drain on society. So what is the difference?

Answer 1

no difference...both murder.

God bless,
Stanbo

Answer 2

Interesting you equate a viable living person with a disease to a fetus. I would say a huge difference. Pregnancy is not a disease. A fetus is not a viable living person. And even if you could magically make some type of direct connection between the two I'd say no difference in that if the care giver of the alzheimers patient makes the decision to end the suffering of the person or if the pregnant woman makes the decision to terminate the fetus it is still a matter of choice. Neither decision should ever be a legal issue but instead a moral and ethical choice for the decision makers.

Answer 3

Simple, although both are wrong.

The person with Alzheimer's is going to die in a relatively short time even if you don't give them a lethal injection - the unborn baby, on the other hand, would most likely live another 70+ years if their mother does not kill them while in the womb. Next question!

Answer 4

If the fully developed human asks for a lethal injection while they are in a sane state of mind, then both are humane. A fetus does not have a developed enough mind to make that decision. If a fully developed human with Alzheimer's has not said, that would be murder. They are fully capable of making a decision, relying on the capability to in the past or on future SCIENTIFIC discoveries are found. There is a HUGE difference between a mindless fetus and a fully developed human with a disease.

Answer 5

Truthful people deserve to die with diginty. I have no problem if they were given one. Personally I'd rather be given a lethal injection than to be totally gone like that. However we have people that think that people should live whether they want to or not.

Oh and the difference is a fetus as young as what is aborted can live outside the womb. Alzheimer's patients only need medical atttention. Also to be fed if they are to that point. How nice though that you think that they are the same thing.

Answer 6

Actually, I do. In abortion, the person making the choice benefits, as does society if the parents don't plan to raise the child correctly.
In the other, everyone benefits: the family, being spared the pain of their member in dementia, the person themself, who has the dementia, and society in general, due to the fact resources aren't being drained to take care of them.
Until such a time as a cure can be made for alzheimers, anyway.

Answer 7

They are both wrong, in my opinion. In the case of the latter, it's good to have a living will stating something like "If a time should come that I lose cognition of .......(Fill in the blank) then I don't want to be a drain to my family or society who would be responsible for my care......ect." My husband has one of those already. He has decided (a long time ago) that he would chose to end his life (or have assistance from someone else if necessary) if there ever came a time when he could not support his family in a physical or mental capacity. But no one can really predict if they are going to have a mentally dibilitating disease, so it's something that you should decide while you still have the capacity, then stick with it.

Answer 8

homicide is a sin in spite of the undeniable fact that the executioner isn't a sinner. If somebody takes a gun and kills somebody with it, then he has substitute right into a murderer in God's eyes. (Exodus 20:13) This same guy or woman on a similar time as have been given right here in the time of in value with the aid of regulation, will face the lack of ability of lifestyles penalty--execution. for this reason, the executioner isn't a murderer, simply by fact he's in uncomplicated words ending up God's command; a soul for a soul. (Deuteronomy 19:21). The executioner isn't punished with the aid of God, if that is what you attempt to think of roughly. truthfully, the ingredient is that the executioner isn't a killer simply by fact he's basically being obedient in relaxing the legal and rightful penalty approved with the aid of God and the country or State regulation Code. there is yet yet another attitude which on the count variety style of understanding of ideal and incorrect yet God himself has ordered the destruction of depraved ones to be carried out very right now with the aid of his Son Jesus Christ.—Psalm 37:38; Proverbs 2:22.

Answer 9

until life can independently function outside the mother's womb it is considered part of the woman's body alone.... even unto the point of an invasion, like cancer....... only if it is loved and welcomed does it have the rights as a baby...

on the other hand people with alzheimers are independent functioning individuals that the world could use some education on how to deal with... alzheimers is another form of amnesia... one dealing with these people need to start doing things with them things they use to enjoy... if the person had a talent start to teach them how to do it... memory is kicking in when they start to correct you.

Answer 10

Writing as someone who has had both an abortion and a grandfather with severe Alzheimer's, there is no difference.

Answer 11

"They both can be a drain on society" Wow, do you know anything about Nazi Germany? Because you and Hitler have alot in common in your ideology.

Anyways, to answer your question - there is no difference. Choosing to end someones life (ESPECIALLY because it's a "drain on society") because you don't deem it livable, is wrong.