Is your idea surrounding by the constitution, the Bible or right to die.? When an animal is so severely at the brink of death not wanting to live, sure you put it down without the hassel of insurance or the law having to take over so why not humans? Just my take.
2007-06-04 18:19:26 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I agree, i think it's very bold of us to be able to make the decision for someone else. I think that what he did, as illegal as it was, was probably more moral than the PATRIOT act. I think that the people he helped had the right and the consciousness to make the decision to stop suffering, and be released.
I find that if you are religious and believe that God loves you no matter what, setting yourself free of pain and suffering is forgivable.
In the eyes of the law, i think that while it is okay to put down dogs, or to pass people with low brain activity or car crash victims with little to no chance of waking, putting someone consciously to rest may be an easier decision. Because in other cases these beings can not tell you what they want or need. How can you deny people there basic lively right, of whether to be in physical pain and suffering, or to go easy into sleep. I think it should be a no brainer. I think it's logical, moral and maybe even less painful to make the decision yourself.
2007-06-04 18:30:11 · answer #1 · answered by Jackie B 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is the second time today that I have answered this question. I wish that ANSWERS had some way to refer questioners to earlier responses to identical questions. Since they do not, and I fear that you may not see my earlier answer, which I consider beneficial to readers, especially young ones from whom I see so many questions concerning suicide, I am repeating it.
It is wrong to take a life--even your own. Sounds simple, doesn't it? But it is not so simple as that. Some people yearn for death because they are in great pain, and have been for a long time, and know that it will never stop until they die, and that may be an even longer time. Naturally, they are bound to think, "What is the use of my staying alive?"
Notice I said "naturally." That is our human nature. More often than not, that point of view rules our lives. So we seek some method of handling whatever problems we face. For some it is an unendurable situation, one which they cannot control, but desparately wish to escape.
Dr. K. has demonstrated that he does not want to be an indiscriminate murderer. He has undertaken to help some who wish to escape mortality for reasons like that described above. Though I know that his actions are against God's will, I feel that if I were in the place of Dr. K., or of any of the people he has helped, my human nature would prevail. I would want to die, I would want to help someone to die, if I knew that there was no other way to achieve freedom from pain.
It is not our place to judge whether someone is wrong to have broken God's law--who of us has not? So I say...
Dr. K. has faced a difficult situation and taken a very bold action to try to rectify it. I admire his courage, even though I know that his assisting people to commit suicide is morally wrong.
I honestly believe that many people would agree with me, but most would never admit it.
2007-06-05 01:48:53 · answer #2 · answered by masince1986 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree that someone should have the right to die if they want which they do. They have the right not to take nourishment or life saving treatment if they do not want to. I don't feel however that we want to start the precedent of allowing someone else to do it for you. This may give people less of a reason to keep in the fight for life when they know that an easy option is readily available.
2007-06-05 01:38:40 · answer #3 · answered by Jigsaw 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just don't know, murder is illegal so is suicide but I watched my Mother die from cancer of the stomach. The tumor was so big she looked pregnant on her little 105 frame. she didn't ask anybody to do anything but everyday she would say He knows how this hurts why won't He let me go? where is the humanity in that?
2007-06-05 01:46:01 · answer #4 · answered by damron 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe that humans should die naturally - just my take. I don't have anything against those who would choose this option, though.
2007-06-05 01:31:36 · answer #5 · answered by January 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, if someone is mentally stable, terminally ill and, in pain they should have the right to die.
2007-06-05 01:24:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋