Euthanasia/Mercy killing

Are you against it?

Do we have the right to choose to pull the plug on someone who's already dying?


(wth it didn't post as a poll >.>)

I'm not to sure how I feel about involuntary euthanasia and pulling the plug on someone who doesn't get to decide himself, a person in coma for example. That is just a way to get rid of something you might see as a burden. Then again, I don't know if I could handle taking care of a veggie for the rest of my life if I ever get in that situation.

I do support voluntary euthanasia though, like for people who's old and don't have the will to live any longer or people who are sick and know for sure that they'll soon die anyway.

Yeah melancholy be more specific on wat u mean, is the person brain dead, almost dead, animals not humans, over-population?

If they say yes once asked, then yes. If they are vegetables, refer to the family.

If we have the right to artificially keep them alive, then we also have the right to pull the plug. Besides, nowadays most people have some sort of living will.

Sorry, This

It should be permitted under certain circumstances.

An individual should make preparations ahead of time when they are sound of mind on what course of action they wish the doctors, family and whoever else involved should take. My friends and family all know that if I become incapable of living without a machine such as comatose or even severely brain damaged then they are to "pull the plug". This decision came after the debacle over the Terri Schaivo case of the family trying to prevent her feeding tube from being removed while her husband wanted it removed. All because her (Terri's) wishes were unable to be determined.

If a person makes adequate preparations ahead of time then I believe their wishes should be followed. Their body, their decision, nothing more. I see anybody who wishes to commit suicide because anything other than the highest degree of inability to function in society as nothing more than ultimately selfish and inconsiderate of the feelings of family and friends. Their death affects more than just the person dieing.

You should think long and hard on such a decision because, once they pull the plug that's it, lights out.

Pending the situation I'm all for it. A person who is lying on a hospital bed, in a coma, only kept alive by machines should be taken off. It may be cold-hearted, but I don't like the idea of anyone paying to keep a vegetable alive with no hope of recovery. It's selfish of the family to put that person through it and it is selfish to expect anyone to pay to keep that person alive.

i totally agree but if they have a small chance more than 25% then i would try to keep them alive as long i could afford, not til im broke but when the money used to keep them alive is more than i spend in a month then thats when i dont have a choice.

You never know bout Coma patients, there's been a case of a woman waking up after years of Coma.

And every patient has that little chance of recovery.

My personal opinion is, people should decide by themselfes in advance.

I'm thinking of something like telling your relatives or insurance beforehand, that if something like that ever happens to you, you either want to keep on living, or just let them end it in silence.

Extremely circumstantial in my opinion. I think that it should be permitted if the person fits at least 4 out of 5 of these:

1. Family abandoned them or have all died.
2. Mentally/physically/psychologically ill
3. Consensual from the person and/or family.
4. Publicly shunned and ridiculed
5. Extreme poverty/debts

Patient should every right before hand, if I'd rather die then sit in a coma I should be allowed to. *shrugs*

The problem is that medicine cannot operate on a "you might never know" basis. Hospitals around the world in this day and age are purposefully managed to be underbedded, in an attempt to cut cost and reduce bedding spans. That has the consequence that your 80-yo zero-score grannie is competing for an ICU bed with the young girl with the bicycle incident they just picked up; and at this point the question becomes just a bit more brutal.
Do you turn off the machines on the grannie and let her die? Or do you put the girl in a normal bed and let her croak? Decisions, decisions.

I personally think that if a person is deemed clinically dead with no realistic chance of survival, they ought to be switched off stat. Relatives ought to have no say in it, as it is a well-known psychological fact that they will often refuse to have a loved one switched off, because they hate to let go. That's understandable, and to some point human, I guess, but it ought to play no role in the matter at hand.

Agreed. That's the problem. Too many people let their emotions get in the way of something like that.

I believe it depends on the individual, if they are adamant on dying they would also suicide someway or another. I feel that if euthanasia was actually permitted in hospitals it could be abused in some way or another :S

Good answer. If I was personally on that bed, I would definitely want them to pull the plug (though at that point I wouldn't be able to make a conscious decision).

This answer basically sums up my thoughts, I would want the plugg pulled if I turned veggie. I would also pull it one someone as well; I don't know something about leaving someone "alive" like that just seems wrong to me.

It'll be a waste, those body parts could help another person

Though you might be completely serious, I just laughed when I saw this, mostlikely because of the brashness of the statement.