Euthanasia / myLot

India

January 31, 2024 12:38am CST

No government in the world has let people die by promoting Euthanasia but I wonder if in the living will a person can make a statement that if they are in a coma they should be put to death We have a neighbour here who is in that state for well over 20 years. Home nurses come and go and there is no count of the number of nurses who have taken care of this man, cleaning him, feeding him, bathing him the works. How embarrassing it would be only if he knew how many women were involved in keeping him alive - just alive. The daughter is the one the who manages him and no doubt she too has sleepless nights. I would surely opt to die if ever - God forbid - I get into that state.

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NJ Chicaa

@NJChicaa (116098)

• United States

31 Jan

Euthanasia is legal in Switzerland and Canada.

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@allknowing (130073)

• India

31 Jan

That is good. It is not just the patient but the care takers who also go through hell.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (458867)

• Switzerland

31 Jan

@NJChicaa Correct! NOT promoted by the government, but allowed. Soon it will be legal also in Italy.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (85660)

• United States

31 Jan

I know euthanasia is openly accepted and practiced by Switzerland and Belgium. And, I never would have advocated my mom with dementia choose euthanasia. It would have broken my heart. However, I do feel people like my mother should have that option. She didn’t deserve to suffer like she did, and those who are in comas with no hope don’t deserve it either. I know I don’t want to be kept alive to be a vegetable, and I do not want my family to have to deal with it either.

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@allknowing (130073)

• India

31 Jan

Most think like you but it is not practiced as there are restrictions. Also even though the living will gives the permission loved ones will not opt for it and that is the sad part. They hope nature will take care of it.

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OceanTiara

@RebeccasFarm (86838)

• United States

31 Jan

Oh I was reading Colorado..here where I live..is opening the gates for anyone in the world to come here to die.

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@allknowing (130073)

• India

31 Jan

Why are you so harsh on Colorado? My nephew lives there and seems happy with his family. I spent a week with them and all was well then.

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@allknowing (130073)

• India

1 Feb

@RebeccasFarm If you are saying your condition is different from that of my nephew it would be the same for you no matter where you lived.

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OceanTiara

@RebeccasFarm (86838)

• United States

1 Feb

@allknowing Well, it is quite cut and dried what is going on here in my place. I don't know why you are comparing your nephew with me?

People have different circumstances you know surely you realize this. Just because people, strangers at that, live in the same state, does not mean their life situations are the same or comparable or that the things that are happening in one city in Colorado is happening in another. Anyway, I answered your question by saying that Colorado is opening the gates to anyone that wants to come here to die. They are expanding it so that anyone can avail of euthanasia.

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb16-1054

leg.colorado.gov

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb16-1054

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Judy Story

@jstory07 (134510)

• Roseburg, Oregon

31 Jan

I would not want to be kept alive if I was in a coma for 20 years. No way.

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@allknowing (130073)

• India

31 Jan

But your loved one would want to keep you alive and that is why government should recognise the living will

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (95562)

• Marion, Ohio

31 Jan

I see a couple of people mentioned it is legal in a couple of places. I wouldn't want to live like that

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@allknowing (130073)

• India

31 Jan

Euthanasia should be universal

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Avinash

@avi256 (8489)

• Pune, India

31 Jan

I remember watching the movie Guzaarish starring Hrithik Roshan and the story was based on Euthanasia...in a way, it was promoting it.

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@allknowing (130073)

• India

31 Jan

India is not for it yet.

rsa101

@rsa101 (37968)

• Philippines

31 Jan

Keeping their loved ones may be worthwhile for those who can afford to use those services, I suppose. However, for many of us who cannot afford it, when that happens to us, nature will undoubtedly take control of us.

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@allknowing (130073)

• India

31 Jan

You have put it very nicely. You are right

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popciclecold

@popciclecold (35368)

• United States

31 Jan

That's a long time. I'd rather just check out.

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@allknowing (130073)

• India

31 Jan

Nature should inervene

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (58057)

• Centralia, Washington

31 Jan

I wonder about this with folks who suffer with Alzheimers.

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@allknowing (130073)

• India

31 Jan

There are so many situations where living is a nightmare.

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Dr Souvik Chatterji

@sathviksouvik (17977)

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2 Feb

thanks always smiling. It is a difficult call. I know a lot of persons who are paralysed. they are taken to banks in wheel chairs by sons and daughters in law. But they get pension also and contribute with wealth in the family too.

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@allknowing (130073)

• India

2 Feb

You mean they benefit monetarily if they are kept alive?