do you agree in euthanasia?

Question

im just wondering what euthanasia is? and my classmates and i always debating bout that euthanasia..

answer me please.. thanks..

Answer 1

Euthanasia is often called "mercy killing" because it is the act of purposefully helping a patient/person die usually through injecting them with an overdose of a narcotic or removing life sustaining equipment. Such patients are USUALLY considered terminally ill, i.e., expected to die within a few weeks/months. With all the new medical technologies available to us today, it is quite possible to keep a person alive far longer that in the past. But it doesn't necessarily mean the time they have is of any quality....unable to move, pain, in a coma, constantly having trouble breathing, being fed by tubes down the throat, unable to be removed from any number of life-support devices, etc.

Done for the right reasons, euthanasia is a blessing for the suffering patient. HOWEVER, there is a very real potential for abuse if we as a society are not careful...For instance:

1. A greedy relative that doesn't want their inheritance being eaten up by the sick person's medical bills.
2. A health care bureaucrat who wants an uninsured patient's hospital bed for someone with better insurance.
3. An insensitive medical system that does not consider the sick patient's desires, but rather decides FOR the patient what would be quality of life. After all, some people would rather live regardless of what they have to go through to do so...and that is their RIGHT.
4. The patient may be uninformed of other options to euthanasia, i.e., pain management therapy, hospice care, etc.

Answer 2

Euthanasia is contrary to the Hippocratic oath. On the other hand, it is often senseless to prolong life in certain circumstances.

Making a patient comfortable often means heavy sedation, enough to risk cessation of breathing. If the main purpose is comfort, and the patient and/or family agree and understand the risks, it should be allowed. I would not term this practice euthanasia.

Answer 3

It must be a fascinating debate where none of the participants have any idea of what they are debating. Rather than arguing about the morals of euthanasia I suggest you spend some time learning how to spell and construct a reasonable English sentence.

Answer 4

Yes I believe in euthanasia. I think Dr. Kevorkian is a hero. To stand up for something you believe so powerfully in but is almost always critizied and punished for. And how come our animals can have the simple rite of passage into a better life by just going to sleep when we seem fit that they should die and we can't make that decision for ourselves? Why do they get to die in peace and just fall asleep and we have to suffer our illnesses and unfortunate demise suffering and in pain? Animals are so lucky sometimes.

Answer 5

Euthanasia is mercy killing
killing the people to death in cases where life is much more painful than death
in such cases ending the life is decision worth fully taken
but the authority to take the decision and its verification should in responsible and experienced hands

Answer 6

I'm more worried about Youth in America.

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Seriously why not just google it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia

Answer 7

Yes I believe it is a basic right that people should have to end their lives if they are facing a painful death. I don't like to give short answers but there it is. I believe this right is as fundamental as any of the rights in the U.S. Constitution or The Declaration of the Rights of Man.

Answer 8

Euthanasia, sometimes called “mercy killing,” can be a difficult issue. On one hand, we do not want to take a person’s life into our own hands and end it prematurely. On the other hand, we do not want to prolong the process of dying more than necessary—that is, we want to preserve life, but not prolong death. At what point do we simply allow a person to die and take no further action to extend his or her life?

A related issue is that of assisted suicide. Essentially, a person seeking assisted suicide is seeking to euthanize himself, with the aid of another person to ensure that death is quick and painless. The person assisting the suicide facilitates death by making preparations and furnishing the needed equipment; but the person seeking death is the one who actually initiates the process. By taking a “hands-off” approach to the death itself, the facilitator seeks to avoid charges of murder. Proponents of assisted suicide try for a positive spin by using terms like “death with dignity.” But “death with dignity” is still death, “assisted suicide” is still suicide, and suicide is wrong.

We live in what is sometimes described as a “culture of death.” Abortion on demand has been practiced for decades. Now some are seriously proposing infanticide. And euthanasia is promoted as a viable means of solving various social and financial problems. This focus on death as an answer to the world’s problems is a total reversal of the biblical model. Death is an enemy (1 Corinthians 15:26). Life is a sacred gift from God (Genesis 2:7). When given the choice between life and death, God told Israel to “choose life” (Deuteronomy 30:19). Euthanasia spurns the gift and embraces the curse.

The overriding truth that God is sovereign drives us to the conclusion that euthanasia and assisted suicide are wrong. We know that physical death is inevitable for us mortals (Psalm 89:48; Hebrews 9:27). However, God alone is sovereign over when and how a person’s death occurs. Job testifies in Job 30:23, “I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.” Ecclesiastes 8:8 declares, “No man has power over the wind to contain it; so no one has power over the day of his death.” God has the final say over death (see 1 Corinthians 15:26, 54–56; Hebrews 2:9, 14–15; Revelation 21:4). Euthanasia and assisted suicide are man’s attempts to usurp that authority from God.

Death is a natural occurrence. Sometimes God allows a person to suffer for a long time before death occurs; other times, a person’s suffering is cut short. No one enjoys suffering, but that does not make it right to determine that a person should die. Often, God’s purposes are made known through suffering. “When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other” (Ecclesiastes 7:14). Romans 5:3 teaches that tribulations bring about perseverance. God cares about those who cry out for death and wish to end their suffering. God gives purpose in life even to the end. Only God knows what is best, and His timing, even in the matter of one’s death, is perfect.

We should never seek to prematurely end a life, but neither must we go to extraordinary means to preserve a life. To actively hasten death is wrong; to passively withhold treatment can also be wrong; but to allow death to occur naturally in a terminally ill person is not necessarily wrong. Anyone facing this issue should pray to God for wisdom (James 1:5). And we should all remember the words of former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who warned that the practice of medicine “cannot be both our healer and our killer” (from KOOP, The Memoirs of America’s Family Doctor by C. Everett Koop, M.D., Random House, 1991).

http://www.gotquestions.org/euthanasia.html

Answer 9

We treat our pets more "humanly " than we treat people.

We should not force people to live if they do not want to.