Should Euthanasia be legalised?
By zandi458
@zandi458 (28102)
Malaysia
July 28, 2008 4:14am CST
I read a report in the news of a former teacher who has developed an incurable disease that has disfigured her physical appearance and doctors have not found a cure for her abdnormal sickness. This patient is aware of the hopelessness of her condition and as such has seek euthanasia as a mean to end her life. The law did not agree with her request. She committed suicide.
Animals are put 'out of their misery' rather then let them suffer intolerable pain, yet are refused the same merciful release to our fellow men. With all that modern medicine and surgery can do to prevent disease, or abate it, many human beings still end their days by a slow and often agonizing illness. In this case should a doctor have the right to give an overdose of morphine to a patient who would otherwise die a lingering and painful death. Many unfortunate people who have no hope of leading a normal life or is being a tragic liability to their families, should not be denied of seeking euthanasia. If euthanasia has been legalized the number of suicide would not have increased as a result of being denied a further step along this merciful path.
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9 responses
@revdauphinee (5703)
• United States
29 Jul 08
why not ? a cure could be found any day and who knows it could be for you!
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@wild_flow_r (304)
• Philippines
28 Jul 08
heck no! we cannot give life therefore we do not have the right to take away anybody's life no matter what the reasons are. there is a reason for everything under the sun. if a person is suffering from health malfunction it might be because God has intended it to be. it might be that God has a purpose for that and humans should trust God. the problem is that we are too busy thinking of other things that we forget to call on our almighty God.
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
29 Jul 08
True - the christian religion teaches that it is wrong to take away human life. 'Thou shall not kill' is an unequivocal command. Moreover, it is possible that pain itself has a significant place in the scheme of evolution and serves some mysterious moral purpose.
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@revdauphinee (5703)
• United States
28 Jul 08
allowing this would open such a can of worms unless it clearly stipulated that only the person them self could request it not any family member but the patient only and only after review bu psychiatists lest it merly be caused by depresion I personaly am totoaly against it due to the fact that only God gives life and only he should be allowed to take it!also I am old myself and would not want anyone but him to have that much power
@revdauphinee (5703)
• United States
29 Jul 08
pain is Gods way of letting me know i am still alive LOL!
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@parthag (145)
• India
29 Jul 08
First of all I would congratulate you to start such an important topic. Yes Euthanasia should be legalised. I have come across people going through immense sufferings and leading their lives at the mercy of the others. But before taking the final decisions all possible implications should be taken care of. What is the use of a person to live with the help of heart and lung machine.
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
29 Jul 08
Well if human is reduced to vegetative state, the option is leave this world as soon as possible but euthanasia is illegal at the moment and should it be legalised it is akin to murder. So let the patient wait for his last breath even if it means intense suffering.
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@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
29 Jul 08
What a sad story. That poor woman forced to take her own
life because it is against the law for doctors to
euthanaize a human. I have long since not been able
to understand or agree with the fact that humans are
made to suffer unmercifully from horific diseases while
animals are euthanized. As much as it hurt me to put
my animals to "sleep" it was the most humane and kind
thing that I could do for them so that they wouldn't
suffer. So how can we as humans in good concience allow
another human to suffer as they will with cancer or any
other horribly painful disease when there are perfectly
available means to end their suffering, although not
accepted by law.
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
9 Apr 09
I think that if someone is terminally ill, and they have no quality left in life, they should be able to die with dignity, instead of suffering through days, weeks, and possibly years of pain. I think it would be a good idea to make a living will stipulating this fact, so that should it happen, the members of the person's family will not be in doubt as to what to do, and how it should be done.
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
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28 Jul 08
with restrictions i think it should be legal, but there does have to be safeguards. First of all, the decision must be made by the person involved, not family or worse the medical profession. Under no circumstances should it be allowed in order to save the medical profession money. Nor should it be to get rid of someone with an akwarsd long-term illness but with no money. If a way could be found to keep greed out of the araingment, id be all for it, but unfortunately too many snouts get pushed in the trough. The question really should be can our society be trusted with Euthanasia ? my answer is a resounding NO
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@underdogtoo (9579)
• Philippines
28 Jul 08
The thing with most humans is to chase after pleasure and avoid pain, to have a good life and bemoan a difficult life. I could go on and on but the thing is life is not a bed of roses. We are not alive to just eat and procreate. Why is it undesirable to have a person suffer and you have to kill them? They could be expiating some terrible sin in their present or past life and they are freeing themselves of bad karma. It you stop them from getting this opportunity then they might experience worse in their next life.
