Euthanasia / DNR (do not resuscitate) would like your views please?

Question

I already have instructions on my medical records that if my quality of life is jeapodised then they are not to attempt to resusitate me, If I can't live how I was then I wouldn't want to live at all & become a burden to my family. Euthanasia I feel a little yes/no/maybe about. I dont think its right that a person close to you should have to live with the fact they helped you die, I agree 100% if a doctor is willing to assist you, I would rather die with a little dignity. As for helping someone, I would like to think I would be able to help them but I honestly don't know,

Answer 1

If there is no way I can live and be the person I was, then I do NOT want to be resuscitated.. I also think that any person, being of sound mind, should be able to chose their own death, and when it should occur. If a person is going through a terminal illness with no hope of recovery then it should be up to them as to how to die. With no pain and dignity is how I want to go.........

Answer 2

well this is a very good question.
Its got to a very difficult decison for someone to make to help somebody die via euthansia.
i agree 100% if adoctor was willing to assist but otherwise i dont think i could do it. not only do you have live with the guilt but the fear of being prosecuted by the police because they may feell youve committed a crime.
ive made a will and it states no resusitation in my will and its also on medical records

Answer 3

DNR; possibly. If you are going to die naturally, then it is your time to go. If the person is old, infirm and with dementia then they would possibly be happier to go the natural way instead of being yanked back every time (I work in an old people's home, we've had to face this dilemma)

As for actively pulling the plug .... definitely not. When I was 15, my Mam had a massive stroke and fell into a coma. Dad was told that if she ever came out of it, which was unlikely, she wouldn't have a good quality of life and would be ... what's the phrase ..... a vegetable.

He worshipped the ground she walked on and refused point blank, he told me he would have sued the doctor who took it out of his hands. Mam came out of the coma after three months and a few weeks later, my sister told her (she was the first to hear, it was news to everyone) she was going to be a grandmother for the first time.

Within days she was back to her sparkling self and the whole of the Freeman (the hospital she was in) new about the impending new arrival. She lost her sight in that stroke (but she was always shortsighted) but apart from that she made a full recovery and was soon baking, gardening and taking herself (alone) for walks.

Had the plug been pulled, she would have missed out on that baby and his three siblings plus a cousin and my brother's four step children growing up. I was never under any illusion that although Dad came first in her life, her grandchildren came before her children; she delighted in them and they in her .... they all adored her and my sister's youngest (now 20) has told me that she thinks its sad she didn't have time to know her as well as the others.

After she came out of the coma, Mam had 15 more years of life, ten of them were of excellent quality.

Answer 4

A DNR status is frequently some thing this is complete in a well-being middle or different scientific facility putting. it somewhat is for those that are terminally ill and close to demise, or some thing comparable, that would have surely no wish of significant resuscitation could they provide up respiratory, coronary heart provide up, and so on. strengthen Directives or living Wills are greater alongside the line of what you're speaking approximately. it is going to relate your needs of what to do in case of a extreme ailment, twist of destiny, and so on. those needs could be made primary to kin, so as that they could be observed. yet - - - purely on the grounds which you fill a variety of out, it does not advise that in case you smash your leg, they are going to place you down like a racehorse. As between the responders stated, there are various cases of extreme ailment or harm which could be conquer, or are non everlasting. counting on any variety of situations, your analysis ought to in all probability be very stable. In the variety of difficulty, no person is going to "pull the plug" on somebody purely because of the fact they have a living will. i don't prefer heroic measures for me while my end of existence is upon me, yet while i'm in a undesirable smash the next day and on a ventilator for a week whilst my dissimilar injuries are dealt with, i'm unlikely everywhere - that's in straightforward terms a non everlasting difficulty.

Answer 5

I think it must be really hard to ask someone, who has trained for several years to sustain and improve the qualities of peoples lives, to take an-others life.
It is quite difficult enough to destroy an animal under such circumstances.
It is one thing not to resuscitate, this is with- holding action. Euthanasia requires an active part in the death.
Will we then have doctors who specialise in this area?

Answer 6

Y made very hard decisions with my father and my mother. I were their only son. Father had a tumour in the brain, and the surgeon told me with surgery my father would live only 10 or 12 months, and of course his quality of life would not be good. I resolved not to do the surgery, and my father died a month later.
My mother was blind and very weak because of a surgery. Her blood pressure went down day by day although the drugs. When her heart stopped, I didn't do anything to resucite her.
I have always thought I did the best I could.

Answer 7

I am for Euthanasia. Mt friends Father was very ill with cancer and because he was dutch they want back to The Netherlands and put him to rest. He was in alot of pain and he nor the family could take the suffering anymore. They did the right thing in my views.

Answer 8

It is certainly a VERY difficult subject.
I hope that if ever I am in the situation that I need help, that there is someone around who can help. My worry, like yours is that it would then be on that persons conscience.
I do, however, think that if it is a doctor helping there has to be clear procedure as It would be to easy to use "they wanted to die" as a way round other things.
It is a very emotive and difficult subject.

Answer 9

I think if you are watching someone in terrific pain, then I would seriously think about it, I could not watch them suffer, after all we would not let our pets suffer in that pain if nothing else could be done for them, why let a human suffer ? I have said to my Husband if I was in an accident or something happened that left me with brain damage, I would not want to be kept on a life support machine, I would rather have it turned off,

Answer 10

i always joke about Euthanasia, i don't want someone to kill me, but if someone really close wanted me to uhm 'help' them, i just might, it would be the hardest thing in the world though..

my myspace name used to be 'Lacy: Do Not Resuscitate'.. and yeah thats how i want it to be, DNR..


this is kinda morbid..