Assisted Suicide/Voluntary Euthanasia

[Cranos]

Having the family take part in such a decision (which is most likely to happen) can be an unbearable burden: many may resent a loved one’s decision to die, and would be either emotionally scared or estranged by the prospect of being in any way involved with their death. Assisted suicide also introduces a new danger, that the terminally ill may be pressured into ending their lives by others who are not prepared to support them through their illness. Even the most well regulated system would have no real way to ensure that this did not happen.

Many may resent them? I doubt it, that decision is usually made at a point that the illness gets so bad that they don't have long time to live anymore. At that point the illness has been in the lives of the family members for long time, so they've already come to terms with the inevitable death of their loved one. It would be cruel for the family members to want the person to keep on suffering for those few months just because they don't want to lose them. But yeah sure, some might not agree with the decision, though it's not their life or their decision to make.



Even the most well regulated system would have no real way to ensure that this did not happen

You make that assumption based on what? It's a well regulated system that takes a lot of time over here. You don't go to the doctor one day and expect to die the same day. There have to be impartial witnesses, multiple doctors and psychologists involved.

 

[Raven]

Me and my mum have aslready spoken about this. If a terminal ill patient want to die through Euthanasia, it is that persons wish, How can someone resent it?



If my mum had to go down that line, I would never consider it a burden, She made that choice and I would accept it.

 

[Kasynlie]

When you choose to remain silent, you may change your mind at a later date; when you choose to die, you have no such second chance. Participating in someone’s death is also to participate in depriving them of all choices they might make in the future regardless of the quality of life they have, and is therefore immoral.



I don't know if you are religious or not, but no-one should be allowed to play God. If you want a loved one to no longer suffer, pray. I did this when my mum was on her deathbed. I prayed that night to take her, and the next evening He did just that.

 

[Raven]

When you choose to remain silent, you may change your mind at a later date; when you choose to die, you have no such second chance. Participating in someone’s death is also to participate in depriving them of all choices they might make in the future regardless of the quality of life they have, and is therefore immoral.



I don't know if you are religious or not, but no-one should be allowed to play God. If you want a loved one to no longer suffer, pray. I did this when my mum was on her deathbed. I prayed that night to take her, and the next evening He did just that.

I thinking your missing mine and Cranos' point.



People who choose to go to these clinics do not have time to have a future. These people are literally on theyre deathbed.



I am a pagan, I have many gods and goddesses to pray to but everyone has got to die.

 

[Kasynlie]

I thinking your missing mine and Cranos' point.



People who choose to go to these clinics do not have time to have a future. These people are literally on theyre deathbed.



I am a pagan, I have many gods and goddesses to pray to but everyone has got to die.

Then why not leave it up to your Gods and Goddesses to do what they need to do, instead of helping to end one's life yourself?

 

[Raven]

Because they are not the weavers of the web

 

[Kasynlie]

Because they are not the weavers of the web

I don't know what you mean by that.

 

[Raven]

I believe that the norns (past, present and future) have our lifes already weaved.



The gods and goddeses our theyre to guide us in my opinion.



But this is not a subject about faiths.

 

[Kasynlie]

I agree, this isn't a matter of faiths. I don't have any more to add to this debate. I stand by what I've said and I don't believe that voluntary euthanasia/assisted sucide should be legalised.

 

[Raven]

Same, Except I stand by thinking it should

 

[The Dragon Master]

When you choose to remain silent, you may change your mind at a later date; when you choose to die, you have no such second chance. Participating in someone’s death is also to participate in depriving them of all choices they might make in the future regardless of the quality of life they have, and is therefore immoral.

So basically if the person who wants help with ending their life is in constant, excrutiating pain, they shouldn't be allowed to have help in ending their life, and therefore should live the rest of their days in pain, rather than have the chance to die painlessly, with some sort of diganty?



I don't think it's immoral in helping someone carry out with assisted suicide. I think it's more immoral, if that person asks you for help and you deny them your help. That person has asked for your help in letting them die peacefully, instead of having to lay on a bed in the hospital for the next few months unable to move or in constant pain. If they are coherent enough to say/tell you that they don't want to live anymore, then they have the right to end their life.



There has been cases of it where the person who wishes to die has recorded messages to make sure the person that helps them with their wish doesn't get prosecuted. I think it should be legalised, then it stops people from having to go to extreeme lengths to die. Switzerland is one country that legalizes euthinasia for example. Termanlly ill people from England have to go to Switereland to have help in dying. There was a documentry of a termanlly ill man who flew to Switzerland to commint suicide, who wanted it legalized to stop other people from having to go what he went through.



The family members may feel some regret with having a hand in a family members death, but if you think, which would they be more guiltier about, watching someone they love die in pain knowing that they could have done something that could have cut that suffering short, or helping someone die in the way they want, painlessly. They shouldn't consider it a burden, they helped someone they loved to die the way they wanted to, without the pain or the suffering.