Euthanasia

[Bender]

Do you think it should be legal anywhere? If you don't know, euthanasia is sorta like assisted suicide. Only thing different, assisted suicide, you help them, like you give them a gun and they shoot themselves. Euthanasia is when we do it. We shoot them becuase they are seriouslly ill with little chance of recovering. In short, euthanasia is when you perform the last task. I don't think it should be legalized anywhere because every person has the right to live. In Canada, the charter of rights clearly states that everyone has the right to their own lives. Even if there is little chance of them surviving, what if they want too? Well that's what I think.

[dragoneye]

I Think anyone who wants to die so much that he asks someone to kill him, should have the right to die.

[tacoX]

I think if people wan't to die, it should be their right. I may not agree with it, and I think its horrible (Euthinasia, Suicide), but I think it should be their option.

[*Peng*]

thing i find very strange ..we euthanise animals every day because its cruel to let them suffer ..but its illegal to stop a human's suffering in the same way..

[ZtUPid0]

Euthanasia should be permitted only if the patient is very seriously sick. Maybe in a sickness that will cause a painfull death in the near future. Otherwise it should definently not be permitted.

[carrotderek]

In terminal illness, if the patient is willing, then it should be allowed.

There are many different scenarios that can justify or unjustify euthanasia.

Take a person who has suffered a stroke and suffered full body paralysis. The patient cannot do anything but watch.

Anyone seen the play, "Whose Life is it Anyway?" It deals with the issue quite well.

[PenguinElitist]

Yes, I think it should be legal... humans are machines. Very complex machines, but we are machines.

What do we typically do with machines when they stop working? We first try to fix them of course, but if that doesn't work we don't leave them sitting around the house - we throw them out. Why can't you do the same thing with humans? There's not much of a difference, setting aside your religiously-induced morales.

[Bender]

Okay, most of you guys said if they want to let them. A request for assisted Suicide is typically a cry for help. It is in reality a call for counseling, assistance, and positive alternatives as solutions for very real problems. Suicidal Intent is typically transient. Of those who attempt suicide but are stopped, less than 4 percent go on to kill themselves in the next five years; less than 11 percent will commit suicide over the next 35 years. Terminally Ill patients who desire death are depressed and depression is treatable in those with terminal illness. In one study, of the 24 percent of terminally ill patients who desired death, all had clinical depression. Pain is controllable. Modern medicine has the ability to control pain. A person who seeks to kill him or herself to avoid pain does not need legalized assisted suicide but a doctor better trained in alleviating pain. The more difficult but humane solution to human suffering is to address the problems. So yea, its a cry for help. And you might be pressured. How? If your bills were $40 000 due to medication and counseling and surgery,etc, and your family couldn't afford it, and the $40 000 would be reduced to 0 if you died, and you wanted to live, what would you choose? See, you get pressured. If it was illegal, then you wouldn't have to be pressured dued to money or anything else. Sure, you pay the bill, but a lot of people would pay a lot of money to keep their family and close friends alived.

[PenguinElitist]

Originally posted by Bender@Yesterday, 7:25 PM
Okay, most of you guys said if they want to let them. A request for assisted Suicide is typically a cry for help. It is in reality a call for counseling, assistance, and positive alternatives as solutions for very real problems. Suicidal Intent is typically transient. Of those who attempt suicide but are stopped, less than 4 percent go on to kill themselves in the next five years; less than 11 percent will commit suicide over the next 35 years. Terminally Ill patients who desire death are depressed and depression is treatable in those with terminal illness.* In one study, of the 24 percent of terminally ill patients who desired death, all had clinical depression. Pain is controllable.* Modern medicine has the ability to control pain. A person who seeks to kill him or herself to avoid pain does not need legalized assisted suicide but a doctor better trained in alleviating pain. The more difficult but humane solution to human suffering is to address the problems. So yea, its a cry for help. And you might be pressured. How? If your bills were $40 000 due to medication and counseling and surgery,etc, and your family couldn't afford it, and the $40 000 would be reduced to 0 if you died, and you wanted to live, what would you choose? See, you get pressured. If it was illegal, then you wouldn't have to be pressured dued to money or anything else. Sure, you pay the bill, but a lot of people would pay a lot of money to keep their family and close friends alived.

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If you lack the will to live then you shouldn't live - it's as simple as that. If an individual is so completely reliant on attention and help from others, then chances are he will give back much less to society then what he has taken. This means that it is not worth it, from our standpoint as the human race, to bother trying to keep these people alive.

[Samuel]

To tell you the truth, YES


I think it should be legal everywhere. If I had, 1 day to live, and the death would be very painful, i'd rather die on my own terms.

SO, YES.