Why is it humane to kill a injured/diesese animal but a crime to put a human out of its misery?

Question

if we can put our pets down why cant we put ourselfs down?

and how is abortions legal but assisted suicide is crimminal

Answer 1

This is a very good question. But from what I can understand, it is because, it is a common belief that humans have souls and animals don't, therefore putting an animal to sleep is okay, especially since they are totally helpless in their deseased sick state. But, to put a human "to sleep", is like playing God, and there also is the question of if it's murder or suicide and the possible guilt afterwards and people just don't know how to deal with those questions.

I personally don't know where I stand on this issue, and I probably won't ever know unless I have to face it personally.

Answer 2

Pets lead fairly straightforward lives. They have few pleasures, simple needs. If all of those pleasures are gone, it is cruel to keep them alive to suffer.

Humans, on the other hand, live on so many levels that even excruciating pain isn't enough to make a life not worth living. Who'd a thought that someone like Stephen Hawking could have accomplished so much, given that his entire life is full of pain and suffering?

Answer 3

Great question. We are, compared to Holland, somewhat uncivilized. We prefer to dictate to people they must watch their loved ones die a slow agonizing death. I had to watch my mother, except she was so drugged up the last few weeks she (hopefully) wasn't aware most of the time, and my half brother watching his father die a slow excruciating death from cancer. His father begged him to kill him, begged him with tears streaming down his face and there was nothing he could do; can you imagine? In Holland there are Hospice places where you can go or take your loved one and they euthanize them painlessly and don't force them to suffer the way we do in the "civilized" USA.

Answer 4

confident, i could quite. The puppy is suffering and depressing and unhappy, and that i could not stand to verify them that way. and that i don't think of of it as "killing it" i think of of it as "saving it" by using fact the animal can stay a carefree, constantly happy eternal life in heaven. it quite is greater valuable so the animal would not could desire to stay it quite is depressing life any further.

Answer 5

That's EXACTLY the question I've been asking! I even posted it a few mins ago. hehe

I'll wait for ur answers.

But suicide is legal, yet assisted is not. O.o

Answer 6

its different, I had to do it to a human once, the hardest thing Ive ever done in my life, but I couldnt watch him burn to death, he was a good mate

R.I.P.

SSGT Gibbs