What is your view on euthanasia are you fore it or against it?

Question

What is your view on euthanasia are you fore it or against it?

Answer 1

If someone has no quallity of life left and cannot help themselves then they should have the choice,should i go or should i stay.

Answer 2

No, I'm against it.  

Answer 3

I am completely in favor of it. When a person or animal is terminally ill why do we force them to suffer pain and false hope and make them wither away to nothing to appease a fantasy god?

  

Answer 4

It's a very difficult one, once I read a book of a terminally ill woman and it breaks your heart.

You can understand why death would be better, but could I do that to any of my family? No really..

It's the sort of thing that until you are going through it, you can't have an opinion about I think.

Answer 5

I am for it in extreme circumstances. After watching many people suffer with dementia/cancer/Alzheimers just waiting to die I think that sometimes when there is no quality of life it would be better. I work on a unit for Elderly Mentally Ill and sometimes we get people in their 50s with absoloutely no quality of life and don't even recognise their family anymore it makes me wonder how many of these people have said to their families in the past- If i ever have to go in a home shoot me. Its something I have said a lot

Answer 6

Totally against. Dangerous in the extreme.

But I think assisted suicide has a case.  Imagine becoming more and more incapable until breathing is affected, no control over bodily functions and the prognosis is poor.  People have to travel to Switzerland, Holland, Belgium or Oregon at present,

Answer 7

I'd like to think that if I had a terminal illness I'd be able to choose the moment I die, surrounded by those who love me. I would want to go before I was in bed unable to do anything, wracked with pain and having my family afraid to leave my side in case something happens. My mother died of cancer and its not a nice way to go. Why shouldn't we be able to choose our moment and die with dignity?

So yes I am definitely in favour of euthanasia as long as it is properly carried out.

Answer 8

Well, it's still performed to this day...with animals.  I am for it to a certain extent.  If there is no help whatsoever and a person/animal is in serious pain that'll only make them worse and worse, and knowing the consequences and the struggle ahead, as long as they consent to it, it can/should be done.  People (or animals) shouldn't be made to suffer until the very end just because it's "wrong" to kill.  Technically it isn't killing them, they were dying anyway.  My german shepherd had to be euthanize d because the woman we bought him from didn't tell us that he was a product of incest.  She was very careless.  He was only 1 yr and 3mths old too.

I think it depends on the situation at hand.  

Answer 9

Depends on what youre talking about.   Humans or animals?   Personaly, I am for both.    Baby Boomers thought it great to have abortions because children would inconvenience them.    I think it would be great to euthanize boomers when they are old so as not to be a burden on us.    Not working?  Retired?  Sorry, you are not taking my tax money for a pension....time to go granny.  

Answer 10

I have to be in the middle.

On the one hand, you wouldn't let an animal suffer the way some people can do at the end.

On the other hand, there's a possibility of pressure - either real or imagined by relatives and it's not a nice thought that someone would opt it so that their family the other side of the world could take time off work to see them at the pre-elected time.

The mother of a friend of mine chose euthanasia.  Though he was obviously distraught at her death - she was young - he said that it was comforting that she had the whole family around her and she was happy on her last day.  She had cancer and the drugs didn't control the pain - and lived in the Netherlands, where euthanasia is legal. He made it sound like a very peaceful end, so it can work.

Answer 11

hubby & i have decided that if we ever have a dibillitating disease...like motor neurone disease where the body shuts down except the brain...then we would go to Dignitas in Switzerland to die...so we are for it in the boundaries of our own lives.