I don't think there is a topic on this so i thought i should start it. (if there is just close it)

Well what do you think?

I start......

I think that euthanasia is right, only if the suffering person want to, i don't think that some one should choose for some one else, if you know what i mean.

Well coming back, i think that euthanasia is right.(my thery) If a animal is suffering, week, ect, a human will put in down, ie kill it, the animal has not chose if it want to die or not because will don't understand it, if we put it down any way, but we might not know it want to stay alive, but we hear that it in pain and aotmatcal think it want to die. But we can understand each other, and even if a dotcor manly see that, let say a someone is paralzed from the neck down is suffering and just want to die, that doctor will say 'no' and start tell that paealzed person he can do with his life, even if the doctor knows that it can not be done.

Don't take this the wrong way, but same people that have had a bad ingery, will like to satay alive, but some don't and i(f an animal has had a bad ingery might want to say alive) .

i am just say if a human want to die just let him or her, it is there life and there chose, no one elses!

I feel that someone with the courage to end their life because they are in such unbareable ongoing pain, should not be disallowed by a politition.

The thought of someone other than the sufferer making the decision though, scares me.

I would only see the practice of life termination acceptable if the subject had a sort of will to decide for them in the event that they can't speak for themselves.

In any case though, even if writen in a will, it would need to be the judgement of an impartial Jury type selected body to whether the procedure was actually carried out.

I completely agree with dazzo. A person should have the right to terminate their own life, but only if they are allowed to make the choice of their own free will and are of sound mind at the time.
IMHO a person shouldn’t have to go through needless suffering if they don’t want to and so if for instance some one has specifically requested a DNR (do not resuscitate) statement in their will it should be respected, but once again only if this is done while the person is 'of sound mind' and of their own free will, through the arbitration of say a specially appointed commissioner or a judge.

Wow we really are getting in to some deep stuff in this forum.

My personal opinion is that I agree with euthanasia. I know that if I was ever to become terminally ill or so critically injured that my brain could not function properly that I would not want to live. As I said in a different debate. Life is for quality not quantity.
That being said, I saw a news article about a man who has "Do not resuscitate" tattooed on his chest. This man is a doctor and went up to paramedics with a camera crew and was asking them if they saw his tattoo, and he was in a life threatening situation, would they resuscitate.
The paramedic apologised and said "yes he would resuscitate." it was simply a matter of he would not go against his moral beliefs and all that he has been working for.
There was a case in Australia when a woman claimed to have cancer, and ended up eutanising (spelling?) herself. After the autopsy, it was proven that she was healthy and cancer free and could have lived at least another 20 years.
It is items like that which makes the debate difficult. Yes I do agree with euthanasia, however, could it be used in the form of murder?

I suppose Euthanasia could be construed as murder, in the case of a third party deciding whether a terminally ill person should be allowed to die or not.
There’s also the implication that a person who chooses Euthanasia, may be, being forced into the decision by relatives or say bad (boarding on psychotic) medical advice (look at the shipman murders which have occurred).

I think in that case you mentioned were a terminally ill man went over to Holland does point out some of the hypocrisies in the Euthanasia laws in the UK. But If I remember correctly there was talk about the man’s wife facing manslaughter charges on return to the Uk, but as far as I know nothing came of it.
Here In Ireland (both north and south) Abortion is illegal, but going over to Britain to have an abortion isn't, which just seems to me to be adding stress to an already extremely stressful situation). I see the Euthanasia situation in the Uk as just the same. If we had an extensively regulated Euthanasia system I believe it would be much more beneficial situation for everyone in this position.
As it's such an intensively personal subject, for many people (like abortion), giving people real personal choice, when it comes to Euthanasia, in IMHO the best possible solution, but as a way of making sure the system isn't being abused I think it's crucial for people to make clear wills stating their exact wishes on the matter.

I think that if a person decide that she/he wants to die, euthanasia is ok but it would be bad if someone else make that decision for an other person.I would rather want one of my family member to die like that than knowing that a person that I love commited(sp?) suicide.

Well, these topics are just boring when everyone agrees, huh? So I decided to tell you all my opinion (and you all know how strange I am )

So, what do I think about euthanasia?

You guessed it!

I am against euthanasia . Here are my reasons.

I personally feel that it is not up to mankind to decide who lives and who dies, even if it is your own life. It the same as suicide, really. If a person is really sick, or physically injured, and they want to die... what is the difference between that and being mentally injured, totally and completely depressed, and you want to kill yourself?

It all comes down to my belief that life should not be tampered with. We should let nature run its course.

As for life being for 'quality not quantity', that implies that a person with a physical ailment is not worth anything. Just because a person has physical hardships, that does not mean that they can't do something useful in life.

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I guess that's enough for now. This should give enough for people to debate

When you say we should let nature run its course and not interfere are you suggesting that we should abandon medical science and just let people die when they get injuries or diseases?

I believe that if we are giving people the option to live we should also give them the option to die. We do live unatrually long lives through medical technology which without the world population would be much smaller. I think there should be some kind of age limit though. If a person feels that they don't want to live the rest of there live on a dialysis machine or if they don't want to spend the last 6 months of their life doing kemo therapy I respect that and I believe they should be able to choose their life.

Whilst I'm personally not for euthanasia, I'm not totally against it either. I think people should be able to choose for themselves and obviously, were it ever to become legal, it would need exceptionally stringent control to stop abuse of the system. I can already see headlines about greedy relatives, desperate to get their hands on an inheritence, prematurely offing someone else.

On the other hand, I think it insanely, unspeakably cruel to force a person to live if they are wracked with pain, have no hope of a cure or a recovery and desperately want their suffering to end. No one can judge a person in that position unless they've been where that person is. I'm sure they don't really want to die - if someone could offer them a cure, I'm sure they would prefer that.

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