Do people have the right to die with dignity? What's wrong with wanting death?

Answer 1

9 year nursing.

I had a much loved patient who for the last 18 months of his life he's responc to any Greeting was "If I was a dog they'd shoot me". And he was right - animals have more rights than intelligent people.

I believe in freedom of choice. That an informed person has the right to decide that they wish dignity. This is a big difference from the usual rants about "burdens to the state" etc.

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

You're a good and kind person for caring
but...

I disagree with a part of your premise...
dying with dignity yes, a right to die no. (suicide/assisted suicide)

Your question is good, and the answer is important...(yeah, a matter of life and death)

I assume you wouldn't murder anyone... because you respect their life?
(and there's no need to base this respect of their life on a religious value system, you can be a non-believer and still agree that killing people is wrong)
...but do you rate the value of life on a kind of sliding scale?
...are you going to rate the value of their life based on a comparison to your life?
A teenager who commits suicide thinks that their mental anguish justifies their actions. But we see it as tragic and short sighted. Not justified at all, only arrogant and selfish.

Mental anguish is no less painful than physical suffering...

Suicide to escape suffering is arrogant and immoral, because you judge life as being diminished in value, based on an unfair and selfish perspective of life as it "should be".

We can see the mistake of the teenage suicide, but do we acknowledge the same flawed judgment elsewhere?

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Answer 4

The way I see it you only get to live this life once. Why not try to live it to its fullest?

I could care less if I died with dignity, I care though if I managed to live with dignity.

Answer 5

There is no such "right" to die with dignity. There is a DESIRE to die with dignity, but there is no such RIGHT.

As for WANTING death, there is nothing WRONG with WANTING death. There IS something wrong, however, with "COMMITTING" death, i.e. murder, suicide.


Have a blessed day.

Answer 6

People do not have rights the idea of natural rights did not arise until John Locke.

Now to answer your question. Its one thing to stop giving someone medical treatment and allow them to die naturally.

Its quite another to starve them or poison them.

Answer 7

Yes they do. It should simply be their right--not the doctors, the state, their family, etc.

At a certain point if a person doesn't want to continue--they should be allowed not to continue.

It is such a personal thing, I don't feel anyone else has a right to infringe on their decision.

Answer 8

If you want death because you want to go home to be with the Lord is okay; but to commit suicide is wrong. The only right thing to do is wait , God will take you when your time on earth is done and not before. What are your intentions for this question?

Answer 9

i believe people who are dying should be allowed to do so as painlessly and with as much dignity as possible.

Answer 10

You can't die with dignity. You live with it.