What is your opinion on euthanasia? Do you accept or reject it?

[â™›RahXephonâ™›]

 

Euthanasia is the act of deliberately ending a person's life to relieve suffering.

For example, a doctor who gives a patient with terminal cancer an overdose of muscle relaxants to end their life would be considered to have carried out euthanasia.

Assisted suicide is the act of deliberately assisting or encouraging another person to kill themselves.

If a relative of a person with a terminal illness were to obtain powerful sedatives, knowing that the person intended to take an overdose of sedatives to kill themselves, they may be considered to be assisting suicide.

 

TBH I had always felt conflicted about this issue. In some cases, I feel as though it's completely alright but then I'd always end up thinking that we're not Gods. It's never right for us to take the life of someone else. 

 

Your thoughts?

[518]

how can anyone be against it? i dont understand

[shocking blue]

If someone is suffering and the suffering cannot be alleviated, it's the kind option. Prolonging their suffering is cruel, unless they request for it.

[piccolo's girlfriend]

if you're going to die anyway and you're suffering, why should you be forced to continue living in pain? it's one thing if it's a mental disorder such as depression that can be changed with the aid of therapy and medication, but to keep a terminally ill person who doesn't want to live anymore alive seems more cruel than ending their life. 

[alt]

I agree, but the diagnosis needs to be exact: There is no way out.

[â™›RahXephonâ™›]

By the way guys, Euthanasia is not always about someone who's suffering from pain. It could also be people who are in a coma and no longer has a chance of awakening. Sometimes, Euthanasia is performed on these people with the consent of the family to alleviate the family from spending so much money for hospital fees etc.

[sickwithsin]

If a person with a terminal illness decides they'd rather end their life than suffer through a drawn out, painful decline, that's their choice. Forcing them to stay alive is cruel.

[harusaka]

If the person wants it then its fine or if they're really suffering. It's like how people put down their pets when they get too old or their body condition is really bad.

[sickwithsin]

Double post.

[wiaraewiwiarae]

I support it in cases when an adult can't physically end their own life (too ill, can't move, etc,). In all other cases people shouldn't request other people to be responsible for their death.

[iamayam]

1. Only the patient have the right to choose providing no strings attach meaning no threat or mental illnesses.

2. If the patient are unable to provide the agreement , no one should impose Euthanasia on said patient.

[LisaVandercunt]

Im for it. I find it pretty selfish to be suffering from a terminal illness and be a burden to the family. End your life and relieve others of their suffering as well as your own.