The legal status of euthanasia : should it be legal or illegal ?

[cgannon64]

Euthanasia should not be legal if there is any doubt that the person wants to die. I wouldn't want my relative killing me if I wanted to live...

 

[zjl56]

If anything what this thread brings up is the person in Florida who has no function. It is quite debateable but even if the person was to die I wish they give the person a better death than starvation. But I think there is still hope in that case.

 

[IglooDame]

Legalize it. There will be a tough bit of judgement required in assisted-suicides to ensure that the assistance is welcome (for if it isn't, the assistance is murder) but on the whole the "right to one's life" that supposedly is enshrined in most national charters in one form or another must include the right to terminate one's own life.

 

[Stapel]

Euthanasia laws should not only tell that it is legal, but also how and when.

Seems logical to me.

If a sane person suffers from life, and wants to die in a decent way, he should be able to get professional assistance.

Denying this right is just wrong.
I guess I will never understand why people are against that.
Interfering with a sane person's reasonable wish is immoral!
How in the world do some people think they have the right to force other people to suffer unnecisarily?

 

[Stapel]

If people really think starvation is a better option than having a painless, well-overthought, professional assisted termination of life.....

Never mind.
I'm not going to post here what I think of those people!

 

[Milan's Warrior]

It should be illigal no matter what. Human life is too important then to be taken away for simple reasons. Pain can easily be avoided and many just need just need to see a doctor.

My grandmother had bone marrow cancer and in the last few weeks she was completely immobilized and was screaming all day and all night until even her voice was different. She was full of morphine that her body could not take any more; they could not give her more because it would have killed her then and there. I am told she asked to die several times, albeit not in front of me (because I was little). I remeber her bloated face and the fact that she could not even turn her head because it was too painful, so basically she lived the last few weeks just bloked in one position. I remeber her continuos lamentation.