View Poll Results: Should euthanasia be legal?

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    People should be able to choose if they want out.

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    Yes, for people who are mentally sound, terminally ill, and aren't being pressured to do it for friends & family. Someone refusing life support isn't euthanasia, so I'm not concerned about people in a vegetative state. People should make those sorts of medical arrangements (along with things like DNRs) before someone happens to them.

    I don't think that people who want to commit suicide should be allowed to use the euthanasia process. While I agree with a lot of what @(you need an account to see links) said, the fact is that there are other human beings who have to administer (or at least provide) the drugs used for euthanasia, and it's not fair to make them be responsible for someone else's choices. I think that helping terminally ill people who are only facing a physically painful suffering & death die is compassionate. I don't think that helping someone who is suffering emotionally is compassionate. For people who are suffering emotionally, there ARE other options. There are things to try, like therapy and medication. If the person is simply unwilling to try because it's never worked before or it's their business, then they cannot ask someone else to provide them with the means of killing themselves. Obviously people who want to kill themselves will find a way to die, but I don't think it should be at the hands of someone trying to help terminally ill people. While it may be none of MY business, it very literally WOULD be the business of the person being asked to provide the drugs that would kill that individual.

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    Most definitely, but under controlled circumstances and when there is no hope. My grandmother passed away Christmas 2013 after a short illness but she suffered with Dementia which was brought on by a stroke. I visited her care home several times a week and witnessed people going from happy and outgoing and unable to feed themselves within a matter of months.

    Terminal illness or an illness with 0 quality of life, they should have the choice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Katie View Post
    Yes, for people who are mentally sound, terminally ill, and aren't being pressured to do it for friends & family. Someone refusing life support isn't euthanasia, so I'm not concerned about people in a vegetative state. People should make those sorts of medical arrangements (along with things like DNRs) before someone happens to them.

    I don't think that people who want to commit suicide should be allowed to use the euthanasia process. While I agree with a lot of what @(you need an account to see links) said, the fact is that there are other human beings who have to administer (or at least provide) the drugs used for euthanasia, and it's not fair to make them be responsible for someone else's choices. I think that helping terminally ill people who are only facing a physically painful suffering & death die is compassionate. I don't think that helping someone who is suffering emotionally is compassionate. For people who are suffering emotionally, there ARE other options. There are things to try, like therapy and medication. If the person is simply unwilling to try because it's never worked before or it's their business, then they cannot ask someone else to provide them with the means of killing themselves. Obviously people who want to kill themselves will find a way to die, but I don't think it should be at the hands of someone trying to help terminally ill people. While it may be none of MY business, it very literally WOULD be the business of the person being asked to provide the drugs that would kill that individual.
    I don't see the person to administer as the problem. There are plenty of people that would LOVE to kill people or help them along (sadists). And that also have no guilt/remorse. But as a society we see this behavior as taboo and opts to hire the person that strongly believes that people should have the right to die. (who knows, maybe some people are the first but are fantastically good at hiding it).

    Either why, I don't see the person as administering as the problem. There is always going to be someone for the job.

    I more so have a problem with the fact it's illegal for a person to kill themselves.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sociopath View Post
    I more so have a problem with the fact it's illegal for a person to kill themselves.
    Oh yeah, that's bullshit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Katie View Post
    Oh yeah, that's bullshit.
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    Yes. But I don't believe it should be common practice. It should be a decision made with the approval of the patient, the family, and the doctors.

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