Euthanasia Does a person have the right to choose when to die? And also if a person wants to die but cannot do it themselves, is it murder to grant their request?
Good Idea but you'd have to find a way to differentiate between the people who want to die and the people who to kill. How about jerseys or a tattooing system?
I think the right to die, goes along with the right to a meaningful existance. If you are no longer capable of careing for your self I think you should have the right to put into a Living Will your wish for death. Lawrence has said this already, shoot me when I can no longer feed my self. Shoot me when I can no longer remember who those that are dearest to me are. Shoot me before I have lost all my dignaty. When a person has nothing left in the world he or she should still be able to have their diginaty.
Given that little rant, How is euthanasia any different that the DNR (do not rececitate) wishes of some one. Really when it comes down to the person who has asked for the DNR in a Living Will, has asked not to be kept alive and a burdden to to any one. They have asked to be allowed to die with their dignaty in tact.
Now there is also another take on this question. It can be taken to mean that the person who has no terminal illness, and is of sound mind at the time has chosen a date, for example Dec 21 2010 to die. This should not be allowed. While it would be a great convience for every one to know well in advance when a death is going to occur and it would probably help with the over population of the globe, if there is no medical reason for the choice it should not be allowed. And yes I think their should be a commitee to asses each case and grant or deny based on a series of guidlines.
AS for the second part of your question dear loving lawrence, no as long as the request is passed by above mentioned commitee, and a medically trained person carries it out. Other wise it would still fall under the area of illegal, although perhaps not wrong.
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Now, I'm going to say something disturbing and crazy, but this may be some crazy way of killing two birds with one stone....
Why not get all the people who want to kill people, and all the people who want to die, and let them duke it out.
Good Idea but you'd have to find a way to differentiate between the people who want to die and the people who to kill. How about jerseys or a tattooing system?
I think the right to die, goes along with the right to a meaningful existance. If you are no longer capable of careing for your self I think you should have the right to put into a Living Will your wish for death. Lawrence has said this already, shoot me when I can no longer feed my self. Shoot me when I can no longer remember who those that are dearest to me are. Shoot me before I have lost all my dignaty. When a person has nothing left in the world he or she should still be able to have their diginaty.
Given that little rant, How is euthanasia any different that the DNR (do not rececitate) wishes of some one. Really when it comes down to the person who has asked for the DNR in a Living Will, has asked not to be kept alive and a burdden to to any one. They have asked to be allowed to die with their dignaty in tact.
Now there is also another take on this question. It can be taken to mean that the person who has no terminal illness, and is of sound mind at the time has chosen a date, for example Dec 21 2010 to die. This should not be allowed. While it would be a great convience for every one to know well in advance when a death is going to occur and it would probably help with the over population of the globe, if there is no medical reason for the choice it should not be allowed. And yes I think their should be a commitee to asses each case and grant or deny based on a series of guidlines.
AS for the second part of your question dear loving lawrence, no as long as the request is passed by above mentioned commitee, and a medically trained person carries it out. Other wise it would still fall under the area of illegal, although perhaps not wrong.
Nita
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