what do you think of Assisted Suicide?

I was watching You Dont Know Jack on HBO about Jack Kevorkian. Jack is a doctor who was called to people's houses to help end their suffering. These people werent pluck on the street and Jack said ok its time. No people who are terminally ill dealing with months beyond months of pain call up Jack to end their lifes so they dont suffer any longer. They dont want to take a gun and shot themselves, they rather go out in a clean way.

It is interesting how everyone who is opposes assisted suicide are people who arent suffering themselves. While in my state, it is now legal for a doctor to prescibe lethal doses of drugs for people to end their lives, there are still many other states who dont. People and the states who still use religion to guide them in their laws, are blocking the option for people to end their lives when they are ill and suffering.

Be a man and die with the pain instead of ending it yourself.

Where is the line between assisted suicide and murder?spazzx625

I watched a documentary called "The Suicide Tourist" on PBS.

The guy flew to switzerland or somewhere where its legal. He had some disease and was paralyzed and could only move his head. He was slowly dying and wanted to die before he would lose the ability to swallow, because then he would not be able to drink the deadly mixture if he waited.

He knew he would die a horrible death if he waited, so a judge or some athority approved his suicide.

I don't see whats so bad about that.

Be a man and die with the pain instead of ending it yourself.

Xorital

I would find it acceptable only if the person is terminally ill to end his suffering. Any other reason to commit suicide, assisted or not, isn't a good reason imo.

Be a man and die with the pain instead of ending it yourself.

Xorital

I think any form of suicide is wrong.

Where is the line between assisted suicide and murder? Also, considering Jack Kevorkian was profiting from this, he's not a great philanthropist or humanitarian or anything.spazzx625

Legally? Its once you physically insert the needle,pill, liquid, etc into the person for them. Thats what originally got Kevorkian in trouble in the first place. My only thing with PAS (physician assisted suicide) is that its not my place to tell someone they have to live if they don't want to. As long as they aren't ending anyone else's life I see no issue with it.

Suicide doesn't hurt other people. Strictly speaking. In my opinion, it could be legalized with a strict code. But it just opens the gate for other **** that is better off closed.

I watched a documentary called "The Suicide Tourist" on PBS.

The guy flew to switzerland or somewhere where its legal. He had some disease and was paralyzed and could only move his head. He was slowly dying and wanted to die before he would lose the ability to swallow, because then he would not be able to drink the deadly mixture if he waited.

He knew he would die a horrible death if he waited, so a judge or some athority approved his suicide.

I don't see whats so bad about that.

SupaKoopaTroopa

We had to watch that for my one nursing class. He didn't want to become a spectator in his own life. He had ALS so eventually he would've just suffocated because everything would just become paralyzed. I can understand how that would scare soemone...I just don't know if I would be able to make the same choice.

[QUOTE="Xorital"]

Be a man and die with the pain instead of ending it yourself.

super_mario_128

I can thanks for asking.

Edit: I'd want my end to end naturaly, not with the help of someone else. No matter how painful atleast I can say I died with honor and dignity of living through the pain for a short time.

[QUOTE="super_mario_128"][QUOTE="Xorital"]

Be a man and die with the pain instead of ending it yourself.

I can thanks for asking.

Edit: I'd want my end to end naturaly, not with the help of someone else. No matter how painful atleast I can say I died with honor and dignity of living through the pain for a short time.

I imagine it would be a bit easier than regular suicide...

I think any form of suicide is wrong.

Snipes_2

No matter how painful atleast I can say I died with honor and dignity of living through the pain for a short time.Xorital

I'm a big fan of it.

[QUOTE="Snipes_2"]

I think any form of suicide is wrong.

D_Battery

But doctors in hospitals do it all the time as well. You have people who have absolutely no brain function, or terminally ill patients who have less than months or weeks to live and have pain all over, who still have feeding tubes because the religious or moral dogma that ending a life has.

If he or she is terminally ill and they want to end their life by assisted suicide I am ok with that.

[QUOTE="Xorital"]No matter how painful atleast I can say I died with honor and dignity of living through the pain for a short time.markop2003

[QUOTE="D_Battery"][QUOTE="Snipes_2"]

I think any form of suicide is wrong.

But doctors in hospitals do it all the time as well. You have people who have absolutely no brain function, or terminally ill patients who have less than months or weeks to live and have pain all over, who still have feeding tubes because the religious or moral dogma that ending a life has.

[QUOTE="Snipes_2"]

I think any form of suicide is wrong.

D_Battery

that doesn't stop people in the gov from telling us what drugs we can take, what we can drink, what we can smoke, what gender we can be in a relationship with in certain states or any other thing you can imagine doing with your body.

I'm for all types of suicide so assisted works too.

If I knew I could end my life if I was dying from a terminal untreatable illness and prevent thousands of dollars of medical bills and horrible pain, you better believe I'd do it.

If I ever become involved with someone in a long-term relationship, I'm going to make sure she knows this. If I can't talk for myself anymore, I wish to die. If I can't move anymore, if I can't function anymore, if all I'm becoming is a burden, I don't want to be alive.

If the person is going to die (an extremely slow painful death anyway) I believe it'd be more cruel to condemn them to that fate then to just let them end it quickly and painlessly.

I was watching You Dont Know Jack on HBO about Jack Kevorkian. Jack is a doctor who was called to people's houses to help end their suffering. These people werent pluck on the street and Jack said ok its time. No people who are terminally ill dealing with months beyond months of pain call up Jack to end their lifes so they dont suffer any longer. They dont want to take a gun and shot themselves, they rather go out in a clean way.

It is interesting how everyone who is opposes assisted suicide are people who arent suffering themselves. While in my state, it is now legal for a doctor to prescibe lethal doses of drugs for people to end their lives, there are still many other states who dont. People and the states who still use religion to guide them in their laws, are blocking the option for people to end their lives when they are ill and suffering.

As long as it's the clear intention of a person of sound mind, I've nothing against it. I think there's a slippery slope in allowing others to decide when e.g. a loved one's standard of life is worthless though.

When it comes to the law, I don't think that universal legislation can adequately handle such a sensitive and complicated matter and I imagine that it's fairly common procedure in hospitals to invoke the doctrine of double effect to end a patient's suffering without any resulting prosecution.

Eh, I'm kind of on the fence with this one. While I think every person has the right to end his or her own life, it gets kind of complicated when involving someone else. It is cruel to keep someone alive when they do not want to be, but assisted suicide could easily be abused. Unless you are completely paralyzed, you really shouldn't need another person to off you. It seems (at least in the media) that a lot of these cases of people wanting assisted suicide are quite capable of doing it themselves but are to afraid or think they are unable to. Eat a bottle of pills, drive your wheel chair off a bridge, shoot your self, whatever, but don't make another person kill you because you didn't have the courage to do it your self. If you couldn't pull the trigger your self it probably means you weren't dedicated to dying after all. That being said, if someone is legitemently unable to end their own life, I'm not opposed to someone set up the circumstances for the person to end their own life, I'm just a little hesitant on someone else actually pulling the trigger.

Where is the line between assisted suicide and murder? Also, considering Jack Kevorkian was profiting from this, he's not a great philanthropist or humanitarian or anything.spazzx625

1. The line? suiciders asks for death, murder victimsdo not

2. Jack was doing a job, he has expenses like everyone else.

[QUOTE="Snipes_2"]

I think any form of suicide is wrong.

D_Battery

Where is the line between assisted suicide and murder? Also, considering Jack Kevorkian was profiting from this, he's not a great philanthropist or humanitarian or anything.spazzx625

It's only fun in Mw2.

[QUOTE="D_Battery"][QUOTE="Snipes_2"]

I think any form of suicide is wrong.

Snipes_2

I don't think assisted suicide should be legal. It's not like killing yourself is hard to do.

Be a man and die with the pain instead of ending it yourself.

Xorital

I don't see how it's moral to prolong someones suffering and force them to die possibly agonizingly instead of just letting them end it. If an animal is terminally ill and has no chance of survival, they can be put down. This is done to ease suffering. If we can ease the suffering of an animal, why not of a human being?

I see no logical reason as to why someone should be unable to choose to end their own life. It's their life, it should be their choice.