Thoughts on Euthanasia

[PLFXpert 0]

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I've dealt with a lot of people that have had a lot of regrets after a loved one died.

I'm obviously missing something...

Staying alive with no quality of life & in pain somehow keeps the family from having regrets?

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[mnealtx 0]

*whups - answered an old, old post - sorry!*

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[DFWAJG 4]

I voted for that law, and whole heartedly agree. We should be comfortable at our death beds and should be able to have the right to choose when we can go if we are terminally ill. Interestingly, at my med-school graduation, during our oath, many of us were silent when we where to repeat "and I'll give no medications....for the purpose of ending life, blah, blah blah, however it went. I was one who was silent.

[akarunway 1]

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I really don't want anyone telling me what I can and can't do with the one thing I truly own. My life.

Not trying to push God on you and I don't want to hijack the thread but the ~82% of Americans who hold to Judeo-Christian values believe that their lives aren't "truly" their own. We are stewards of the lives we’ve been given. Christians believe that their lives ultimately belong to God. In addition, I just don't see suicide as "dying with dignity." Whatever horrid shape you may be in, I think there's a lot more honor in fighting the battle to the end or finishing the race. I respected Christopher Reeve much more "after" his accident than before and he affected millions around the world in a positive way due to his fight. I think suicide is a very selfish thing.

Yeh right. He didn't do a fuckin thing til it happeened to HIM. Fuck him

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

[akarunway 1]

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I think suicide is a very selfish thing.

Great. I don't. And why does the word "selfish" have a negative conotation anyway?

Just because others beliefs say something does not give them the right to force them on me. It was said yesterday the goverment has no business in the bedroom. That's small potatos compared to the goverment having a say in what a person chooses to do with their life.

Majority rules brother. The majority of us believe that euthenasia is wrong. Sorry.

Fuck the majority. MY LIFE BROTHER

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

[Lindsey 0]

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I've dealt with a lot of people that have had a lot of regrets after a loved one died.

I'm obviously missing something...

Staying alive with no quality of life & in pain somehow keeps the family from having regrets?

I don't have a problem with a person dying with dignity under his/her own terms. I don't have a problem with a person committing suicide whose pain and illeness renders his life "meaningless." BUT, there are very few situations in which we are unable to provide adequate pain control and to keep a person comfortable in their final days. If a person does not eat or drink, they die. There's no law that forces anyone to force feed any patient. If in providing pain control, a person's respirations are depressed to the point of causing the person's death as a result, it's not euthanasia, and it happens with some regularity in patients who are terminally ill in hospice programs.

I don't want it to be my role to end the person's life. I find it within my role to ease the person's pain, though. I think that euthanasia/assisted suicide are issues best left to the dying patient and his family & friends. There should be some protection under the law for any such situations, whether the assistance is by a friend or a physician though.

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[ExAFO 0]

If religion would get out of politics, and fundies would get their self-righteous noses out of others' lives, this little blue marble would be so much more peaceful.

Illinois needs a CCW Law. NOW.

[PLFXpert 0]

I just realized you're an MD. While I support a person's right to choose, I wouldn't want to be the one administering the injection either. But, that's b/c of my personal beliefs. Of course, there are hypothetical instances where I'd have to ask for forgiveness.

But, as part of my job description? Not for me. Again, though, there are plenty of doctor's who wouldn't have a moral issue and it should be up to them whether or not they want to offer that service and up to the patient whether or not they want to solicit such services, imo.

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[Channman 2]

More terriorist should try it... Oh maybe they are, they call it a suicide vest.

Maybe thats what we are missing, terriorist are in so much pain, and suffering, hating their very own existance that they have the incredible urge to Euthanasize themselves as well as any on lookers. Maybe Margaret Pabst Battin has a book on the subject that we can reference for further discussion.