In your opinion, why shouldn't euthanasia be legal?

Question

Answer me this: Why should I not be allowed to end my suffering if I am sick and unable to get well? It's my life right, so why shouldn't I be allowed to chose the way it will end?

Well, if that's the case, euthanizing animals should be illegal too.

Answer 1

Yes. Having a father whose wishes were made known to me left me at a point where there was nothing I could do for him except let him die.

The issue of euthanasia was a moot point being illegal in my state. However, medicine has a morphine protocol which is essentially the same thing. It alleviates suffering by preventing oxygen starvation in patients with respiratory compromise such as that which he suffered as the sequela of a life of smoking tobacco.

This being said, the morphine protocol left me feeling that I had effectively euthanized my father and gave me personal issues long after the funeral -- but given the fact that the healthcare providers were primarily concerned with the fact that this 'lifestyle disease' was his 'fault' and not concerned with things like bedside manner and/or empathy for the family.

Be all this as it may, it was the correct decision -- it kept him from the nursing home, ventilator, and dialysis which he wished to avoid -- but left me to pursue this convoluted trip of guilt and grief.

Yes. Euthanasia should be legal and not just called 'morphine sulfate pallative protocol'.

Answer 2

You should. The body is not what matters it is the soul. Release from this world is not an evil thing it is mandatory. How can we consider it humane to put animals to sleep and end their suffering and cruel to leave them alive and in pain yet to offer the same choice to humans is evil? I can not understand the justification in that. Medical science is newer to humanity and many who would die with no medical intervention are kept alive for years of pointless suffering. It should be a persons choice what they want to do with the body they have chosen.

And to those who talk about ending the lives of the weak and disabled there is a difference between someone choosing for themselves whether to end their life and someone deciding that another person is unfit to live. We are talking about personal choices here not genicide.

Answer 3

In My opinion, I condemn as immoral the killing of the weak, the physically challenged, the mentally ill, or the aged, whether by a deliberate act or by coercing or assisting a person to commit suicide.4 God is both the giver of life and the arbiter of life. Fully informed and freely chosen suicide is the final usurpation of the divine prerogative. Humans are not empowered to take their own lives or the lives of others.5 The sick and the weak must not be made to feel that they are a burden and have a moral obligation to relieve society of that burden. Their depression and illnesses often bring severe emotional and physical pain and raise serious questions about their ability to freely choose suicide. It should be remembered that many suicides occur in times of deep depression and great physical pain, when personal judgment and responsibility are seriously impaired. The Assemblies of God does not assume that all such persons are eternally lost.

Answer 4

No, you should not.

First, you would end your own human potential. It is literally the case in these exciting days of medicine that the cure for any given disease may be found the very next day. As such, even during massive and 'untreatable' illness, there is still the potential for humanity.

Second, you would severely diminish the human potential of others. One measure of humanity is the trait of compassion. If there was no one ill, no one terminally so especially, then compassion for death would suffer and this would diminish the potential of the whole.

Since the action as only the benefit of ending pain of one, while having substantial reduction in human potential for the one and for all, the choice of euthanasia cannot be considered morally acceptable.

Answer 5

You should be. I have seen twice cancer gut a person from the inside out, and the last one on their final day on earth. I could not only see their suffering but I could feel it as well. It is a horrible site to see someone suffer like that. It is inhuman and you never forget the picture of it in your mind and you feel so helpless to make their suffering stop. Also my dog had cancer and until the vet told me it was time, it was time.

Answer 6

could you desire to be euthanized? What if the government makes a decision some race or different team is invalid and hence desires to be euthanized? Who ought to choose whilst a "Terry Shivo" isn't allowed to stay anymore (no longer even a mass murderer or pedophile could properly be killed without trial). you're able to be able to of guessed: I help existence and appose euthanasia. I appose somebody (alongside with harmless unborn toddlers) being terminated (killed) without trial. lots of the comparable people who help abortion and euthanasia cry monster tears approximately even mass murderers getting the death penalty.

Answer 7

Why shouldn't it be legal? There is no real biblical reason for not permitting it if it is administered properly and for severe cases of illness.

Of course, it should never ever be forced upon any individual.
That would be murder in God's eyes.

Answer 8

I support it in cases of incurable and painful deceases. None of us that the right to force someone to live in pain that will never end.

Answer 9

If someone is depressed without a physical ailment, then they should not be allowed to take their own life.

Answer 10

Because we are all held in the Father's hands and He chose when to bring you into the world and He choses when it's time for you to leave it