Do you believe that euthanasia should be legalized?

Question

for people who are suffering with cancer or some other painful and certain death?
also are you conservitive, moderate or liberal?
I'm just curious if this issue would split any party lines

more over i mean if someone elects to die not if we should just start offing the sick so that we don't have to take care of them
i didn't think i needed to clarify that but...

Answer 1

I think that it should be. I vote each issue or candidate based on the information available but I probably fall more toward the liberal end of things. How civilized is to make someone just lie there and suffer until they die. My mother's death was a very long painful one to watch. My father objected to drugging her senseless as the doctors preferred to do, hoping for that last lucid moment. I was just torn. I don't see how politics affect that. To me it would be more important to know whether those expressing their opinion speak from experience or just what they think . .

Answer 2

Unsure liberial

I hate to see people suffering but as another person said slippery slope hmo's and even sadly greedy/lazy family members may put people down before needed.
Also death may not always be certain what if there is 10% chance whats limit hard questuin for me

U can add layers of checks to combat this but not foolproof and creates red tape for legitimate candidate

Answer 3

No, I don't. I don't think other people should decide who lives or dies. It may end up 1 step further some day, and then we will be ending others lives..as in the elderly. The only time I believe in putting someone to death is for murder. I do believe in the death penalty. I am a moderate.

Answer 4

Moderate Liberal:

I'm divided on the issue.

On the one hand, I think if someone of capable mind wants to end their life, they should be allowed to and if someone wants to provide the service to them in a humane manner, I have no problem with that.

On the other, I don't want someone who is "not all there" deciding to end their life. And I also don't want "euthanasia" to be a defense if someone murders an elderly person in cold blood.

So it's a slippery slope. My heart says yes, my distrust of people says no.

Answer 5

no person ought to ought to go through an prolonged painfull dying and that i've got faith we ought to continuously be allowed to opt for if we'd opt to die or no longer.There ought to be some way of coming up a criminal residing will to quit clinical care or to end suffering in situations have been people have been heavily injured or have a degenerative ailment.in relation to many maximum cancers deaths the guy dies in pain and there could be no dignity in that ..what's incorrect with permitting them to slip away peacefully by using morphine.I watched my grandmother die a shadow of her former self.and he or she purely needed it to end...If a puppy replace into suffering we'd think of ourselves merciless to maintain it alive so i do no longer understand why we ought to continuously watch people go through.

Answer 6

You get an answer and a half -
first - yes, it should be...we can't choose to come into this world; we should have a choice on how we leave.

When you are terminally ill, you have the choice to have a DNR tag on your file: Do Not Resuscitate...the EMTs will not do anything to save you - they have to respond, but they will not treat you.