To "kill" a loved one.....

i won't do it. like what you said, mercy killing is still killing. it is a sin against God and against man. i am afraid of the consequences when this happens. natural death would still be better than letting anyone, especially if it is a loved one, to die in my own hands.

If I am the one in that position, I want my family to pull the life support so that I will die with dignity. I do not want them to suffer while I am dying. I do not think I want to live like a vegetable when I have a choice to take away this responsibility to my family.

Here in America it is legal for the DR to turn the nachine off,or you can get a court order to have it done.I believe it is a mercy killing but I would not want to live that way as it is not a quality life.
If God want you to continue living you will do so when the machine is turned off.
I personaly could not turn the machine off because I would always wonder in my mind did I do the right thing.

In the US the doctors will ask the family if the would like to have the machines shutoff or do they want the family member left on life support. There are family members who argue about what to do. Not long ago a husband was battling his in-laws about shutting off his wifes life support.
If I was the one being kept alive by a machine I wouold want my family to have it unplugged.

This will always be a contraversial issue, and people will never agree on the irght action to be taken in such a situation.
Turning off the life support were a family member is concerned is not an easy decision to make, but if the person is in serious pain and wishes to end the misery then I would feel obliged to help whether the law agreed or not. I would be concious of the decision for the remainder of my life, but I feel that it would be the right thing to do.
If I was in constant pain and never likely to have any quality of life again, what right has a perfect stranger to decide that I should continue to suffer for several more years because termination it does not agree with their principles.

This is a very tough one marie. Here in Israel, we see things just like in Sweden, which means that killing out of mercy equals murder and it is not allowed. If you would ask me that a year ago, i would tell you a different answer then i am about to tell you now. i would have told you that if i knew this person all my life and knew how he feels about things and told me one time that if he was in a position that he is now, to please and set him free from all of his misery, i would do it, i would shut down all the machines and free him out of his misery. But about an Year ago i saw a special program in tv that told us, that those sick people can hear and feel us even if they are in a comma, then i started thinking, what if he changed his mind, and decided that he does not want to die, and is not able to tell me that because of his situation. am i to kill him? maybe he wants different things now, maybe god has different plans for him, and would set him free and make him recover. Who am i to do such a thing. I think that now, i will only be there for him all of the time, and hold his hand and hug him. (i hope that i won't be in a situation like this).

I would kill them myself if it was legal

in the nicest way possible, within reason

lethal injection, whatever

they do it for cats, why not for people

at least they consider that sort of thing in Sweden, here its only in Oregon they even talk about it

when i am in my school time then i have a friend whos name raka and he is my best friend, he always do every thing with me even all the bad thing as well as all the good thing we do together .. as my family as well as his family become together some time he live in my home for a week and sometime in my case ..
as he help me to study as he always help me in the examination as we do cheating together in the exam...but one day when we gonna for a walk in our own city then for save me he strike the car and become injuired then i took him to the hospital and then all my family as well his family come to hospital doctor say that his position is so critical he cant be back and his condition is so rare that i cant see him in that position then at the same time all have go to other room and i and my friend is alone in that room he is crying that please leave me free but i cant do that ....and i think about all the time which we pass together..and then he ask me to leave him then i wanna to help him one one min is a fight for him so i do that ......after that i cant .....
what about you..

It is a horrendous decision, this, to pull the life support. NOT unlike assisted euthenasia, is it?

I am in favour of them both and have seen many a lingerig soul begging to die and yet kept alive because of religious beliefs and of course the laws based on this.
I hope when the time comes for either myself or my wife and we wish NOT to live longer as established by a living will your power of attorney has, somebody will ALLOW us to go. IF people who make laws believe there is a god, why are they taking it upon themselves to play god? And if the people who wish to die are not believers, who has the right to decide for them that they will live under the dictates of someone else's religion??

It is NOT easy or taken lightly, the making this decision and I have done it anyway and had no regrets BECAUSE I understood the suffering and knew the person well. I have medical training as well and am NOT encumbered
by religion.

Medical doctors are well aware of the status of a patient on life support and if there is a chance. People must weigh the evidence and think FOR the person dying.

People find it very hard to have a pet put to sleep but do it because of the terrible suffering, but won't do that for their own mother.. strange.

There are other ways to slowly let someone die and it seems acceptable while I think it horrendous. NExt of kin can sign a paper to permit no heroic measures or further treatments to prolong life.. so you aren't really KILLING anyone, you aren't turning off a machine to stop the artificial breathing or heart pumping, but you are giving permission for the death process to go on slowly and not without pain perhaps, instead of, when everyone KNOWS without a doubt that this person will die, letting him do that NOW if he wishes it.

my, I can ramble.. So I gather you know my opinion? and what you can do for me when the time comes.. you may have to take me to Holland though(wink)


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I will have to truly think this one over. For a loved one in this situation I would never do it. For my daughter which is an extension of me. Yes this is how strongly I feel for my child. I will consider it with every opportunity. I know how you feel about the doctors being wrong. No one should play god. Even though so many doctors play god every day. Who is to say I could allow my child to be such a state.