Why euthanasia is not legal everywhere? Will we make god really unhappy if we won't die in the poodle of ...

Question

our own sh..t??? if we will not be vegetables in terrible pain?
one very far away relative died of cancer lately. last too weeks of his he was constantly asking to kill him. he wasn't eating and couldn't keep his fecies. and what is worse-he had a full clear mind to understand his situation. so why god needs it? i do not get it? or maybe he doesn't? who told he does?

Answer 1

Euthanasia is immoral, and a deity has nothing to do with it seeing as there is no deity.

Euthanasia is the willful termination of human potential. Further, it is the destruction of the capacity for compassion. So not only does it end the potential of the human being who is killed, it impairs the expression of the survivor's human potential.

Still worse, if you kill a person today because their condition is untreatable, you do not know that the cure or treatment for their condition might not literally be announced the very next day. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, has a poingant scene where Doctor McCoy relives terminating his father's life, then has a painful breakdown because only a month later doctors find a cure to what his father was suffering. Doctor McCoy's human potential was diminished not once, by his incompassion, but also by having to live the rest of his life with that pain (Sybok's interference aside).

So no, euthanasia should not be legal. It is murder of both the victim and of an important part of the survivors.

Answer 2

If Euthanasia is allowed whats next will not be pretty. because the youth in asia will want to wipe out all the folks 70 or 75yrs old . Funny how we used to be able to put down our own animals like a horse or dog , and all it cost was the price of 1 bullet . But now its illegal and cost up to $135 So call1-800 the- kill, and now we can have a Kevorkian put down your parents that you dont want to put up with

Answer 3

Eventually, this will no longer be a moral or ethical issue but one of money. As we are able to keep a non-functioning human body "alibe" for longer and longer periods of time, looking for some miraculous cure, the decision will no longer be made by families who want to hang on to hope but by insurance companies and hospitals who will have to choose whether to spend money on a hopeless case or give care to someone for whom there is hope now rather than down the road. We can hold on to hope all we want, but human beings are not meant to live forever and keeping the heart of a dead person beating is immoral simply because it takes resources from someone who really *is* alive and could be helped. I'm not saying go shoot grandma or anything, but when a person is lying in bed in a state that will most assuredly lead to death - like your relative, I do not see how giving that person a lethal dose of morphine at his request would be wrong. Weeks of hell? I put my kitty to sleep in July so this wouldn't happen to her. I loved her and it broke my heart to lose her, but she was dying anyway and would just linger in pain. I still miss her. Why do we treat out pets better than out families?

Answer 4

I used to nurse a lovely old chappie - who'd daily claim if he was a Horse "they'd" put him down.

I only support Euthanasia WHEN it's informed choice of the person in question. NOT some convenient way to "rid society of it's burdens"

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Answer 5

honestly there are plenty of realistic, purely secular reasons why euthanasia shouldn't be officially legalized.

imo though, there should be partial loopholes that allow it to occur in rare circumstances and have little to no legal repurcussions.

honestly, in situations like you described, there should be a way for a person to end it themself if they can, or something. I don't think God would object at all. but at the same time, (purely secularly) I am not sure theres really any way to truly effectively distinguish between those sort of situations, and when someone should *not* be allowed to legally end their life. (suicidal or depressed or whatnot type things)

and I think theres a very legitimate, secular concern of legalizing such things, leading to ... less voluntary "putting out of their misery" type killing.

I think many people get very very irrationally sentimental about it, and (even some people, about themselves) cling to every last second of "life" regardless of quality, dignity or awareness/competence.

I think some people would be willing to be a life-consuming burden on their loved ones for years and years, rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical bills, for as long as they can have that little beep-beep-beep-beep going, even if their mind and dignity had been long gone.

some people have the sense and responsibility and courage to want to NOT be a huge burden on their family, and to die with dignity as who they were in life.

and honestly, stopping the people who would voluntarily ruin their survivor's lives for a little longer of not being buried, for their own good... legally, in a generalized way, would have wayyyyy worse effects than allowing them to, on a much broader scale.

I would not be so quick to assume such issues are due to religious sentimentality, but consider that it impacts people in a purely secular way, as a matter of simply being able to live out your life.

Answer 6

It is your choice, so why are you complaining? If you want to OD, people do it every day, go for it. It is when the government starts allowing DR.'s who care for us decide who should live and die that we have issues. No one stopped your relative from killing himself except either him, or his family. Don't blame us or God, for your lack of action.

Answer 7

I think euthanasia should be legal.

Answer 8

yes, people like to always go back to telling everyone how they should live and die based on the bible, it all seems like crap to me...

People should be FREE to make their own choices....

Answer 9

I always thought that euthanasia was a bunch of teenagers in Russia.

Answer 10

Who said this ?