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Euthanasia

How do you feel about Euthanasia in Terminal Illness

  • For

    Votes: 20 64.5%

  • Against

    Votes: 6 19.4%

  • Unsure

    Votes: 3 9.7%

  • No opinion

    Votes: 2 6.5%
  • Total voters
    31
Jan

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it might be a good thing if done properly. However, the keyword being "done properly". I don't think the current law can adequately prevent abuse if euthenasia is allowed.

However, I personally think it's a good concept.
 
I'm all for it.
What if someone is living in constant pain day in and day out, they should not have to put up with that if they do not want to, it is like punishing them. I think that if they want to die peacefully through euthenasia they should be allowed to.
I have just finished an exam on this topic through my english class and i got the highest mark, which i am pretty proud of.
 
As long as its the persons decision, im all for it. I don't think the decision should be left to doctors or the family.

I personally have never been in the decision to put myself to sleep forever... thats why im still here. But really, if its someones personal decision to leave, why not let them?

When a pet is in pain and dying, we put them down because we know its best for them. When people are sick and dying, they are kept alive by pills and treatments. There quality of life is almost and in a lot of cases nil. Its not fair to drag out a persons illness / life because of our own selfish or religious reasons.
 
Originally posted by Haze
As long as its the persons decision, im all for it. I don't think the decision should be left to doctors or the family.

I personally have never been in the decision to put myself to sleep forever... thats why im still here. But really, if its someones personal decision to leave, why not let them?

When a pet is in pain and dying, we put them down because we know its best for them. When people are sick and dying, they are kept alive by pills and treatments. There quality of life is almost and in a lot of cases nil. Its not fair to drag out a persons illness / life because of our own selfish or religious reasons.
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Exactly.
 
Originally posted by Haze
As long as its the persons decision, im all for it. I don't think the decision should be left to doctors or the family.

When a pet is in pain and dying, we put them down because we know its best for them. When people are sick and dying, they are kept alive by pills and treatments. There quality of life is almost and in a lot of cases nil. Its not fair to drag out a persons illness / life because of our own selfish or religious reasons.
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you been reading my mind ay??
 
Is it just me, or can none of you spell "euthanasia"? Sorry for being picky, but I just find that really strange...especially when Moonman got the highest mark even by spelling the word wrong. ;)

Anyway, I agree with the opinions that have been said here so far. People should have the right to end their lives if they so choose.
 
I am strongly against it. If a person is suffering they should get treatment for their illness but it would be logical to think if there is not any treatment that euthanasia would be a choice. Well I wouldn't think it is. Killing even sick people in my mind is a horrendous crime.
 
If you ask me Nancy Crick, had a mental problem.

First she announced she will die on a certain date.
Then she said she would wait till mothers day
Then she said she would try some therapy.
Then she said it was not working, and would kill herself
Then she killed herself
Then she was found with no cancer.

She also made thousands of dollars selling those keys.

My thoughts, no cancer just mental problems. People die everyday, just because she was miserable and commited suicide (like many people do) she shouldn't make money out of the event.
 
That IS the problem, to determine if the person really wants to die or not.

In my mind this should never be legal, it should never be up to a doctor to decide if the patient _really_ wants to die or not nor should he have to perform such an action.

If a friend helps a person he knows well and that are too far gone to be able to take his own life the law should, and does mostly, look mildly upon it.

But leaving the matter of life and death up to the society? Never!
 
Originally posted by Moonman

Exactly.
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Yep!

Originally posted by chicos


you been reading my mind ay??
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Sorry, I really gotta stop doing that!

Originally posted by MN-Robert
If you ask me Nancy Crick, had a mental problem.

First she announced she will die on a certain date.
Then she said she would wait till mothers day
Then she said she would try some therapy.
Then she said it was not working, and would kill herself
Then she killed herself
Then she was found with no cancer.

She also made thousands of dollars selling those keys.

My thoughts, no cancer just mental problems. People die everyday, just because she was miserable and commited suicide (like many people do) she shouldn't make money out of the event.
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I wonder what she is going to spend the money on?
 
Originally posted by MN-Robert
Then she killed herself
Then she was found with no cancer.
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Dr Nitschke said she had had three major operations for bowel cancer in three years and after the last one it was not clear whether her symptoms were due to cancer or the result of earlier surgery.

"The only definite way of answering that question was through further surgery, or an autopsy, and Nancy flatly refused further surgery," he told reporters at the Australian Medical Association (AMA) conference.

"What was very clear though was that she was in unrelievable pain, plagued by constant nausea, diarrhoea and incontinence, upset with problems with her colostomy, and losing weight dramatically."

Dr Nitschke said some would suggest the forensic findings meant Mrs Crick should have been stopped from committing suicide. But condemning her to intractable suffering was inhumane, he said.
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I wonder how many of you have witnessed a loved one with terminal illness? I have...my mother :crysad:

As Haze said, if it was a pet suffering, you would have no hesitation "putting them down"
 
I have mixed opinions on this so I voted for unsure.

My opinions for are:

- The person are themself and they should be able to decide what happens to them.
- The person shouldn't have to suffer such pain.

My opinions against are:

- Sometimes the person isn't fit enough to make a decision about their death.
- There could be a cure for the disease a few years later (or less) and the person would not have to put up with the ill health if there was a cure.
- Religions say that you shouldn't commit suicide.
 
Originally posted by cheatpark

My opinions against are:

- Sometimes the person isn't fit enough to make a decision about their death.
- There could be a cure for the disease a few years later (or less) and the person would not have to put up with the ill health if there was a cure.
- Religions say that you shouldn't commit suicide.
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- Voluntary euthanasia doesn't come into it if the person isn't fit enough to make a decision.
- sure there could be a cure in a few years time, but they won't be alive to see it even if they didn't take this step. Terminal illness doesn't usually last long :(
- so we shouldn't put animals down either because of religion?
 
Originally posted by Giancarlo
Killing even sick people in my mind is a horrendous crime.
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But killing perfectly healthy (well, until they suffered the pre-ritual tortures) in a bullfight is perfectly fine? Lame. :rolleyes:

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I am for euthanasia, if the person is in pain and going to die anyway. I think you would want your last days and weeks alive to be pleasant and not riddled with unbearable pain. At least that choice would be there as an available option if you wished.
 
ar·bi·trar·y Pronunciation Key (ärb-trr)
adj.
Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle: stopped at the first motel we passed, an arbitrary choice.
Based on or subject to individual judgment or preference: The diet imposes overall calorie limits, but daily menus are arbitrary.
Established by a court or judge rather than by a specific law or statute: an arbitrary penalty.
Not limited by law; despotic: the arbitrary rule of a dictator.
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Hum, I think not. And it isn't really off-topic, I mean, if one kind of killing is okay - and celebrated - then why isn't another kind perfectly fine, GC?

Anyway, did you hear now they're saying she didn't really have cancer and she was conned into going through with killing herself? A load of bollocks I think, just the media acting against euthanasia and therefore putting a very negative spin on it like they have done before, in earlier cases. Honestly, I wouldn't like my last weeks/months alive filled with absolute pain.

(I know I'm digging up a bit of an old thread, sorry! Had to have another say.)
 
Yesh... The media are upset that no one leaked them information that Nancy was cancer free... thats what I think....
 
Warp, they weren't sure (the doctors) until after she died and got the autopsy results. Too bad for the media, they weren't the ones in pain :cry2:
 
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