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<p>Right… it is the person’s right to euthanasia. It is no one else’s.</p>
<p>Murder is the taken of a life that doesn’t want to be taken. Euthanasia is assisted suicide- a life that wants a release from pain and suffering and either is not physically capable of taking its own life or simply wants the easiest, least painful option [would you rather terminal cancer patients just slit their wrists or hanged themselves? Is that more morally acceptable in your eyes? More legal?]. The point of laws regarding murder is to punish murderers who malevolently kill people who want to stay alive, not to prevent suffering people from having a quick, painless death and not a long, painful one [painful for the patient and their friends and family].</p>
<p>@porkperson… you took my post!</p>
<p>How is this different from helping someone commit suicide?</p>
<p>^ It isn’t different.</p>
<p>Euthanasia can also refer to “mercy-killing” of people whose lives are not considered worth living, but who are incapable of giving consent for whatever reason. I’m adamantly against this, because I think that “incapable” will grow to “incompetent” and than on to killing anyone who doesn’t fit Their idea of an ideal person.</p>
<p>I think suicide is one of the most horrible things a person can do, and I would never help someone do it. But I don’t know whether I think it should be illegal.</p>
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And this is EXACTLY why EVERYONE needs a living will. It’s an uncomfortable subject for people to talk about, but your family needs to know your wishes. My entire family (father, mother, fiance, myself) never wants to be in a vegetative state and we know to pull the plug. People who don’t talk about things like this are the ones whose families fight for years while your body and brain are dead and sitting in a hospital.</p>
<p>Do you have a DNR order? Do you want to be left in a coma and/or a PVS? People need to talk about these things before it’s too late. Many people don’t want to be left like that, in a broken body. But others around them will keep them artificially alive or in pain because THEY don’t want to let go.</p>
<p>^ I’m content to let my family decide that, myself. What is it to me what they do with my body? I know I’m going to a better place.</p>
<p>In any case, sometimes miracles happen. I knew a girl who had a massive brain aneurysm when she was about 14 that left her in a coma. The doctors said that even if she lived she’d be a vegetable for the rest of her life, but her family went ahead with the operation anyway. They took out a fourth of her brain, and she only took a few years to get all the way back caught up and graduate high school.</p>
<p>^So you don’t care whether they let you go peacefully or keep you artificially alive for decades? What if you marry and your spouse and parents have different ideas on what should happen to you? What if your mom and dad differ? </p>
<p>Honestly, I think it is downright cruel to put anyone else in the position to make that decision. There is no right decision and I’d be forcing someone to live with guilt and pain for the rest of their life. </p>
<p>And they took out 1/4 of her brain and she was OK? Somehow I’m doubting this, no offense. Was there any news coverage on this? I’d actually really like to read it.</p>
<p>Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
Its too late when we die
To admit we don’t want to be artificially kept alive</p>
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<p>Most of the people that reject Euthanasia do see suicide as morally wrong. Having the people kill themselves would remove some of the legal ambiguity though.</p>
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<p>Well, I’m a minor in my parents household. When I’m married, then I probably will make some kind of life will. My mom and dad won’t differ: they both trust god and each other. And no, I don’t really care if they keep my body going after I’m gone.</p>
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<p>Well, they know that I trust their judgement, and as we’re all Christians, we expect to see each other again someday anyway.</p>
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<p>I don’t know of any news coverage. I only know what the doctors said. I was there at the hospital on and off during the ordeal; her mom was a friend of my parents. She had to start all over with learning to walk, ABCs, etc, but the last time we saw them you’d never know what she’d been through.</p>
<p>And yes, it should have been impossible, by what the doctors said. That’s one of the reasons I believe in miracles, honestly. She had a LOT of people praying for her.</p>
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<p>This is legal and NOT Euthanasia. It’s called “pulling the plug”. This is what you guys are getting wrong. When a person is in a state where all their organs have shut down and they are basically being kept alive by a machine heart they are hooked up to, there is nothing wrong with ending it as they are already “dead”. Euthanasia is basically assisted suicide.</p>
<p>Anybody who supports Euthanasia runs away from their problems, to be honest.</p>
<p>^ No, that’s not true. What you’re talking about is if the person’s in a vegetative state or a coma.</p>
<p>What if the person is conscious, yet all paths (e.g. surgery and medication, as mentioned by the quoted poster) have been exhausted, and they feel that they no longer want to continue their life, because they know that they will die in the near future, no matter what they do? What if this person is in pain for, say, a year, and nothing can be done to alleviate it but death? They could be saved a year of suffering because they know the patient is going to die anyway.</p>
<p>wheres mifune lol</p>
<p>I believe in euthanasia. However, I believe it should only be administered under dire conditions. If a patient is definitely going to die then I see no problem in easing his passage with some insulin. This, of course, only applies if the patient asks for it first.</p>
<p>Categorical imperatives just do not work for society. Right and wrong are primarily defined by the degree to which your action fulfills the wishes of others, as long as they maintain the degree of maturity and psychological health to know what is best for them. Plenty of healthy animals - most of whom want to live - are euthanized each day simply because there is no place for them to go, but it is not okay to let someone who is in immense pain and desperately wants to die, die? Really? A will to live is a will to live, and a will to die is a will to die. Both should be respected as ultimately being the choice of the individual. The only possible exception may be those who have decided to go ahead and make the choice for others.</p>