What is your opinion on Euthanasia?

Answer 1

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I have a serious lung disease and last night had a terrifying panic attack when I couldn't breath. I shall carry on getting worse and worse and am really angry that other people have a say in when I can or can't put an end to this misery. I am not making this up; I really am serious.

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Well said...

i agree with you...I wish you luck dear!

Answer 2

I absolutely HATE that.

Answer 3

It should be legal. If people want to end their suffering I say we let them.

Answer 4

i'm neither here nor there on it

Answer 5

It should be legalised, no question

Answer 6

the youth in asia are cool i guess

Answer 7

It's not right, but nothing we can really do. Some things have to be done though.

Answer 8

I think asian kids are great.

Answer 9

I am against it, only God can give and take life

Answer 10

I have no opinion on young oriental people. (Get it? Youth In Asia? har har)

Answer 11

I worry that its a slippery slope

Answer 12

It should definitely be legalised.

Answer 13

Isn't that a Walt Disney film?

Answer 14

if you see how some one you love suffers as they die , then you too will see it as a good , humane loving thing to do

Answer 15

For humans or animals?

Answer 16

I say we can't really do much about it even if we wanted to. You can blame the government for that evil sadistic torture of putting people through pain.

Answer 17

If somebody is living through a lot of pain because of an illness, with no cure, and they know it's only going to get worse then why not? What's wrong with them dying in peace surrounded by their family? They can say goodbye properly, they won't be in any pain and they can die with dignity. Nobody wants to be on their deathbed unable to breath without a machine, unable to move/clean/eat/drink for themselves.

Answer 18

I sympathised with them but I'm against it.

Answer 19

legalize it..

Answer 20

When they come to the USA they get really good SAT scores and go to YALE

Answer 21

its a hard one.its your choice

Answer 22

It's deadly i've heard :)

Answer 23

useless go for the Cold FX works better

Answer 24

If a person decides it's for them why not. We are not aloud to keep animals suffering.

Answer 25

I think everyone should be able to make that choice for themselves.
I am reasonably fit and healthy but I can honestly say if I was terminally ill and in a great deal of pain I would want to die.

I don't see any point with the continuation of human (or animal) suffering when there is no chance of survival and the only thing you have to look forward to is more pain.

I know that basically euthanasia is suicide but I'm an atheist so I don't believe in all the 'suicide is a serious sin against god' cr*p anyway.

Answer 26

I am a very open-minded person and would never judge anyone in favour or not of it. Personally if I had a devastating terminally confirmed illness. I would want to make my own choice when to end the slow death. I do not believe in suicide but consider Euthanasia totally different .
BTW.... This is an excellent question !

Answer 27

if you've ever played Worms World Party then you'll know its a great weapon!

Answer 28

I think it is up to each individual...and their family, friends and medical team.

And none of my damn business. And before you ask..I nursed my father and my mother with cancer..one after the other.....9 months in all until they were both dead.With the best of medical care and all the pain relief available for at home treatment...which was what they wanted...to die with dignity...in their own home.

Well....they died in their own home. But as to how dignified it was in the end for either of them?

Not very.

I only have one wish.....That I should never see someone I love suffer like that again.

Answer 29

I am for it - on the grounds that MANY are made to suffer unnecessarily so as to avoid a FEW perhaps being wrongly or feloniously dispatched.
To my mind the moral high ground adopted by the opponents is a stark, barren crag of stubbornness - covered in mists of self-deceiving rhetoric. If every single life is SO 'sacred' as to never be extinguished by the hand of another - how come we go about our every day lives as cheerfully as we can, knowing so many millions die every year unnecessarily - through hunger, thirst or the want of available medical treatment ?
Inaction is just as culpable as direct action as regards causation of death - so why the constant justification of prolonging agony - just to delay the inevitable ? The logic baffles me.
The 'slippery slope' lobby have no firm foundation on which to argue - a sharp knife was a great invention for early man - enabling the skinning of hides for clothing and shelter, and the butchering of meat. But what would one have said to Og McGog, the tribal wise man, witch doctor who asserted "This is a slippery slope and must be banned...one day evil people might use knives to kill fellow human beings !!!"
Darwinism explains we have an innate, driven 'life force' - an overriding, instinctive propelling to survive - often against the most horrendous hardships. But there comes a time when it's meet, just and humane - to terminate unnecessary suffering. Just as we so readily consent to do - with dumb animals.
And also do with abortion - terminating 'life' of the as yet unborn - often for the simple reason of financial or social expediency.
And also do in Hospices - where huge pain-relieving doses of drugs are administered - enough to kill a horse (and many human beings) - in order to ensure a 'comfortable', dignified death. Termination under another guise.
OF COURSE it's a Moral Maze of Byzantine complexity - but I fundamentally disagree with the 'Preservation of life at any cost' lobbyists - if their case had rock solid foundations, shouldn't they all be out feeding the hungry and thirsty ?
Rather than waving banners on behalf of those for whom an accelerated death would come as a blessed relief ?

(With ALL due empathy, understanding and well-wishing for Buddha above.)

Answer 30

I think each person has a right to their own opinion
I myself am against it, but If someone I know and love is for it.. then it is their decision, and not mine.

Answer 31

Let's not get into that...I could talk all day about euthanasia...

:)

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