that would require doctors upon your request to provide you with a pharmacutical mix that would terminate your life. Please qualify your answer....thanks.
2007-09-28 07:07:12 · 14 answers · asked by malter 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
YES! I most definitely would support a law that would in essence allow human beings the dignity of being able to choose how to live thier own lives. No one has the right to tell anybody else what to do with their own bodies or their own lives.
When we take ownership of an animal's life, we have the right to take responsibility over them and dictate that we "don't want them to suffer" and we see to it that they don't.
Human individuals are not "owned property", and we each have our own individual responsibility, yet some factions of our society want to take ownership and dictate the choices of others, in matters of birth and death and lifestyles, and there's something very, very wrong about that in a country that claims itself to be "the land of the free".
I don't have to agree with other people's choices, but in a land of freedom, we should ALL be free and have the same right to choose for ourselves how we wish to live and how we wish to die.
2007-09-28 11:05:34 · answer #1 · answered by autumlovr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't need a law to terminate your life. That is a cop out. You want somebody else to do the dirty work for you. It always boils down to choice. And if properly thought out it can be painless. I have known 5 people to commit suicide within a 2 year period. No law was required for them to end their lives. Of the 5, 4 elected to go the painful way, the fifth went out easy.
Its not like they can arrest you for loitering after you're dead.
2007-09-28 12:32:29 · answer #2 · answered by Tinman12 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I would support that law. This is my body and my life. I firmly believe it should be my choice to determine when it is time to move to the next higher level in this game of life we play. Doctors trying to keep us alive beyond our time because that is where the big bucks are. Government trying to keep us beyond our time because politicians fear a small, but vocal religious minority just does not cut it. Again my body, my life, my decision and for me that is the way it will be. A legal surefire way would help.
2007-09-28 07:20:35 · answer #3 · answered by Ray T 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That is a hard one, being raised in a religion that does not allow you to commit suicide. I have seen people suffer so and would not want that if it could be stopped. I want to say yes so that people wouldn't suffer at the ends of their lives but I just don't know.
How's that for being on the fence? sorry.
2007-09-28 09:09:54 · answer #4 · answered by doxie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No!, Only Father has the right to terminate life!
2007-09-28 08:45:06 · answer #5 · answered by oldman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With many provisos, yes.
I would not wish to live in a vegetative state; one with unmanageable pain; or one in which my senses were of no use [unable to read, hear music and the voices of family, see nature, etc]. Were I to contract a disease whose prognosis was deterioration into numbing nothingness [ALS, eg.] I would NOT wish to live beyond the point of having a say so.
No, I would not support legislation which gave carte blanche for one to end one's life for obvious reasons.
2007-09-28 07:36:54 · answer #6 · answered by sage seeker 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, as at that time you are not thinking clearly But if after researched and all family member involved well we remove tubes while they are in hospital and we know that will mean death, It is a very heavy question but a really great question?
2007-09-28 07:26:31 · answer #7 · answered by Gypsy Gal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not on my REQUEST,no...but I'd like to see ethics boards get more involved in the process of end-life care.we all have to die,and modern medicine has changed the way we do that in some not very nice ways.but to be able to get that on request?no,I have lost too many friends to suicide to ever think that is a good idea.
2007-09-28 08:09:03 · answer #8 · answered by min 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In most cases...absolutely NOT!
As a former nurse, my inclination and my training is focussed on KEEPING people alive. Not helping them die.
However...
The one exception would be if the person is in extreme pain, and there is ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE that they will live with their condition.
2007-09-28 11:03:44 · answer #9 · answered by Susie Q 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. There is a population problem, but that is a little extreme. All the severely depressed people would die. That's probably bad.
2007-09-28 08:52:37 · answer #10 · answered by Sarah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋