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<p>Should it be legalized in the remaining areas? I was pondering this and I'm not sure.</p>
<p>I don’t like the map because it lumps illegal with unknown. They should be different colors.</p>
<p>^ I agree.</p>
<p>Euthanasia doesn’t seem to me like an easy topic. I can think of both reasons why it should be legal or illegal.</p>
<p>I think it’s like abortion - it should be a choice thing. I’m all for it, but there just need to be really strict laws so people can’t murder and use euthanasia as an excuse.</p>
<p>^If euthanasia were to be legalized in America it would be only legalized for the benefit of the person being euthanized, not the benefit of others.</p>
<p>Uhhhh euthanasia IS murder.</p>
<p>^Murder is a crime. If euthansia is legalized it is by definition not murder.</p>
<p>No, murder is to kill intentionally with premeditation. Defining it as a crime is too relative b/c it wasn’t a crime in Rwanda or Nazi Germany.</p>
<p>Sorry, I didn’t make myself clear. By “murder”, I meant killing intentionally with premeditation and without consent.</p>
<p>And euthanasia isn’t killing intentionally w/ premeditation? The w/o consent part doesn’t matter. You murder someone who gives you consent and it’s still killing intentially w/ premeditation.</p>
<p>What you are doing is mixing up that all euthanasia isn’t murder while in reality, all euthanasia is murder.</p>
<p>I think euthanasia should be legal provided that the person receiving euthanasia:
- Is it in a state (terminal cancer, disease) where a medical intervention (surgery, medication) is fruitless and would inflect more harm than good.
- Must sign a legal consent that they are fully aware of the decision they are making (however the person can nullify at anytime)
- Must receive an approval from a physician (this would also bypass the AMA’s stance on euthanasia by the virtue of removing the physician from the duty of administering the actual drug
- Must receive the drug from a person that is capable of performing the action and the person must have a licence.</p>
<p>Tbh, I think we really need to think about our definition of murder. Murder is defined as the action of killing intentionally with premeditation. However, the term is often with evil intent, not the intent of doing good.
Although I do not feel comfortable about taking someone else’s life, euthanasia has always been for the person in need, not the person who administered it.</p>
<p>^^ Fine. By current definitions, euthanasia is murder. However, that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.</p>
<p>After seeing the movie “You Don’t Know Jack” I have a new mindset on this topic. I have no problem with euthanasia as long as the person is in constant, unbearable pain not someone who is depressed. </p>
<p>There is a huge difference between abortion, murder, and euthanasia. Abortion is the killing of a fetus that has no say in it’s future. Murder is the killing of someone who doesn’t want to die. Euthanasia is closer associated with suicide than murder or abortion. Euthanasia is consented to, just like if your on life support and you don’t want to be a vegetable your entire life. You may asked that the cord be pulled.</p>
<p>Why try to stop someone who doesn’t want to live any more or who is in constant pain. They are going to kill themselves with or without you so why not let them accomplish their goal in a painless way. Who are you to play God and determine whether or not someone should live or not. It’s not your body or life so worry about yourselves and not others. Don’t judge other especially if you’ve never been in their shoes. Their life, their choices.</p>
<p>^ Hey wait, what are you saying? Killing somebody is kind of like ‘playing God’ isn’t it? So if you help somebody die, then isn’t that ‘playing God’ also?
And I doubt any of us who have posted have been in the situation where they were so unwell and couldn’t be cured they wanted to die. So that shouldn’t have been mentioned in the first place, that was unnecessary.</p>
<p>Not trying to stir up a fight here btw, I just like seeing people’s explanations.</p>
<p>Murder is defined as the unlawful killing of another human being. That is the definition of murder. In America killing intentionally with premeditation is always murder (note, those conditions may not be rigorous enough to actually constitute murder in all cases, I’m not sure, however that is irrelevant to the point I’m trying to make), but that’s not the definition of murder.</p>
<p>However, this is irrelevant, since murder is also not decidedly “bad.”</p>
<p>After seeing some people suffer the way they have, I am all for it.</p>
<p>Why shouldn’t Youth in Asia be legal?</p>
<p>No. Just no. Not unless there is a signed statement from the person that they want to be killed in certain circumstances. Even that is morally doubtful.</p>
<p>I can only justify it in the case of a person who is dying anyway with no chance of survival, and who is suffering.</p>
<p>A human being’s life belongs to them and them alone. Nobody has a right to take it away, unless they have committed a horrible crime or must be killed to save the lives of others.</p>
<p>Yes.
Just as doctor assisted suicide should be legal. And suicide in general. </p>
<p>However, the person should have to undergo counseling first to make sure they are fully aware of the decision that they are making. </p>
<p>We keep people artificially alive, even after their bodies have quit. Let them die with dignity, not in excruciating pain.</p>
<p>^ Not keeping people alive after their bodies have quit isn’t the same as euthanasia, IMHO. I think suicide is horribly wrong, but I also believe people have rights. So I’m divided in my mind as to whether we should allow it.</p>
<p>I definitely think that as long as person wants to keep living, no human has a right to take their life, except in the two cases I mentioned.</p>