Why does it make sense to you?
Do you know the arguments against it? And what are your responses to those arguments?
It makes sense to help someone you love carry out their wish...assuming it 'is' someone you love.
Yes I know the arguments against it and I think noone has the right to insist that someone else lives if they wish to terminate it. Assuming again that a terminal illness is involved in this.
I certainly dont want to drag on in a drug induced state, put there to kill the pain but giving me no quality of life at all. I dont want to inflict witnessing that on my family.
We put animals to sleep to end their suffering and are in fact prosecuted if we leave them in pain yet we cannot do the same for those we love.
I have no belief in God so saying that its only He who can say when a life shall end is totally irrelevant to me.
I do believe in God, but agree it is no ones business if I want to die. And that is why my wife and my doctor have legal papers allowing them to pull the plug on me.
I am all for choice within the harm principle, but this is an interesting case because a large portion (possibly all) of the people who want to commit suicide (and are serious about it) are also clinically depressed, etc. While depression is a somewhat subjective diagnosis, the fact that many of those who are depressed can recover and often go on to live happy lives where they don't want to commit suicide brings up the question of whether being suicidal is just part of a sickness and if that is what the person really wants in a more stable state of mind.
me too dude we should be friendsI do believe in God, but agree it is no ones business if I want to die. And that is why my wife and my doctor have legal papers allowing them to pull the plug on me.
What about them? That is another issue, but I think that one is much easier to solve. For one, people should be encouraged to write living wills. Second, whenever they enter a hospital, the hospital should ask them what they want to happen should they go in a coma, etc. There is a notable hospital that does it (can't think of it off the top of my head) and has much lower costs because of that and other effective policies.
Those who are vegetated are dead.
Um, no.
Those who are vegetated are dead.
not necessarily dude a vegetated state is a disorder of conouness in which patients with severe brain damage are in a state of partial arousal rather than true awareness. It is a diagnosis of some uncertainty in that it deals with a syndrome. After four weeks in a vegetative state (VS), the patient is classified as in a persistent vegetative state. This diagnosis is classified as a permanent vegetative state (PVS) after approximately 1 year of being in a persistent vegetative state.
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