Euthanasia

***Jess*** · January 16th '06

I hope there isn't a thread already about this but I couldn't find one.
What are your views on euthanasia?

Personally, I don't think there is anything bad about it. If someone has a good enough reason why they want to die, then so be it. They shouldn't be judged. If they are ill enough to consider their life not worth living then why should they be restricted from dying? And why should people be convicted of man slaughter for something that was decided by the other person?

**Poetika** · January 27th '06

Since there isn't any actual forthy-mouthed debate here, but I'll put in my opinon anyways. I am all for euthanasia. Its the person's personal decision whether or not they want to fight for life or surrender; not the goverment's. not the doctor's. not the politican's. It may go against the moral ethics of conservatives, but then one's morals don't decide for another's choices or take responisibilty.

**pakstar** · February 21st '06

i think that if a life can be saved we should do all we can to save it

**Sponge'K'nob** · February 21st '06

i dont think its right that you could trust another person to kill you, if ya wanna die, then bloody do it yourself, i no for one i would do it myslef, if i had the bollox to, im not balsy enough to commit suicide,but hey, i could never ask anyone else to do it, or for anyone else, what sorta life would that be? knowing you ended another.

***Jess*** · February 21st '06

But Kaye, if you were too ill or completely paralysed, you can't do it yourself really.
and "pakstar" what happens if they can't save their lives? sometimes they are just completely paralysed people who are living just because they are alive, not because theres anything worth living for.

**Sponge'K'nob** · February 21st '06

yeah i can understand someone wanting someone to help them die, i personally couldnt be the person to do it, modern technology na though, lot of things are being cured. dunno my opinion its ethically wrong.....my point of view lol

**pakstar** · February 22nd '06

*Jess* wrote:

But Kaye, if you were too ill or completely paralysed, you can't do it yourself really.
and "pakstar" what happens if they can't save their lives? sometimes they are just completely paralysed people who are living just because they are alive, not because theres anything worth living for.

why the quotation marks "jess"?

**Shane** · February 22nd '06

If I was incapable of movement and/or was in extreme pain I think I would rather die. it would be the kinder thing for your friends or family to do to you.

**t-junction** · March 9th '06

It's always been a tricky one this. Personally, I am all for euthanasia. A person's right to die is a person's right to die. However, this usually comes under the idea of suicide. Euthanasia only really gets a look in when it comes to extremely unwell or old individuals. In which case, if they wish to die, they should be allowed to. This, in my opinion, should be carried out by a doctor. Less chance of pain or mistakes during death.

What the real issue is, if a person cannot communicate properly, who has the right to judge if their life is worth living or not? I know that if I was existing in a vegatative state, or completely paralysed, I would probably rather die. However, to some people, even the smallest fraction of life is sacred.

To get past this tricky moral issue, I'd like to use the rather harsh, but ultimately true, point that terminally ill people cost a fortune to look after. The equipment used to sustain their lifes, the food given to them, the doctors and nurses time, could be used elsewhere to help people with less serious illnesses, that could go on to live a normal, healthy life. Horrible, but true.

Thats my two pennies.

**Morazain** · March 16th '06

A person has a right to live then they have a right to die.

I've known people who have died they say its like a quick pinch and that's it it's like falling into a deep sleep the moment you begin to die you begin to lose all reason to blissful dreams sounds like a thing eternal blissful sleep.

If you are wondering how I know this it's simple they didn't become dead they just managed to come back. There is after all a difference between Knowing you are going to die and knowing you are going to be dead soon.

You can ask me about that later but I think that the alternative to life of pain dying I think I would do the big nap.

**_bosnian_** · April 1st '06

i did an internship in a hospital last year. before this internship i was against euthanasia, but now i'm all for this. because i saw people there, who couldn't do nothing alone. some just lied the whole day in the bed and were connected to machines, which kept them alive; they were feeded by machines etc.
so now i'm for euthanasia, but here in germany it'll never be allowed, because of the nazi-time. many people who wanted to die, went to switzerland or holland, where euthanasia is legal.

**clueless** · April 1st '06

Well, i am totally against euthanasia. This, i believe, is strongly supported by my personal religious convictions, which teachs that this life is a test and everyone will face hardships, but with these hardships will come ease as everything, good or bad, has to end inevitably. I don't like the idea of a loved one suffering immense pain, anymore then a person who is pro-euthanasian, but i do not believe that any human as the right to cut short the life of another. life, in any form, is sacred.

**Conal** · May 2nd '06

Yes, it should be Legal in Britain
No, it should be illegal in Britain
Don't know

**clueless** · May 2nd '06

No.

**Mikhael** · May 2nd '06

what is it ???

**clueless** · May 2nd '06

euthanasia is in short, assisted suicide

**NATAL!E** · May 2nd '06

I think it should be.
There's so much more to it than people think.
When used in the correct circumstances, it helps so many people.

**~Wayne~** · May 2nd '06

If used in very desperate situations it can give people what they want if their suffering

**Boy_Wonder06** · May 4th '06

we had to discuss this in my philosophy and moral issues lesson lol, it part of our GCSE course, there are so many ways to look at it. I mean yes, if someone is in pain i believe we should do what ever we can to make them feel better but on the other hand, what abaout the family of the person, they have to live with the fact that a loved one has died, and its cuz they were in too much pain, therefore making them feel like they have failed. what you all think of those arguments?