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Post by BigFake on Sept 23, 2008 23:28:04 GMT
Euthanasia, always a tricky one. Do you think its right to allow somebody to die sooner than would naturally happen to save the pain or not?
Do you think the current law infringes on peoples freedom or protects from abuse?
I'd be particularly interested in hearing your opinion Kirsty, seeing as you're in the medical profession.
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Post by Crimson on Sept 24, 2008 0:02:34 GMT
Of course... if the person who's on that hospital bed agrees with it and wants out of his/her misery themselves. Otherwise, no.
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Post by fooze on Sept 24, 2008 0:11:30 GMT
No, if Suicide isn't okay, why should assisted suicide be?
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Post by THE Soccergalaxy on Sept 24, 2008 1:54:39 GMT
No, if Suicide isn't okay, why should assisted suicide be? If you are terminally ill, why should you have to suffer? |
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Post by fairysky on Sept 24, 2008 9:29:20 GMT
I strongly believe in euthanasia, I mean we afford that luxury to animals. It's ok to put an animal down to end their suffering. Why can't we do that to people.
I don't think of euthanasia as assisted suicide, because effectively you're not really taking a life. This person is going to die anyway, why put them through all the excess suffering, only to have to outcome to be the same.
Having spoken to people who are terminally ill, many of them don't want family and friends to see them in a weakened state, they don't want people to have to watch them waste away. Many want to be remembered as they are in there prime, they want to have the strength to say a proper goodbye, and then to leave on their own terms.
I understand why many medical professionals don't believe in it, who wants to be the one who makes that final injection? But there are many ways you could get around that, I'm sure. I know I for one, if made the request by a loved one, would be more than happy to end their suffering, especially having the knowledge of what they are going to go through.
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Post by Geoshi on Sept 25, 2008 20:15:34 GMT
I think it's odd that it is basically illegal to do it to humans, but when we do it on animals (possibly in the same area of "terminally ill") then it's perfectly ok. Where is the line drawn? If someone I knew had cancer and knew he or she couldn't live, it's their decision and right to say what should happen. Either way, I am pro-choice, not so much pro-euthanasia.
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