Euthanasia. Should it be allowed in the U.S.?

[bradly1101]

I've got no problem with it, although perhaps a psych evaluation should be performed beforehand to ensure that they're of sound mind.

That sounds logical.

 

[TheVrolok]

I would certainly support it in certain limited circumstances (terminally ill conditions, etc.).

 

[Zorkorist]

I'm a nurse & I think it should be legalized in the US. Right now if someone is dying and goes on Hospice, they are given Morphine & Ativan every 2 hours keeping them mostly unconscious. For the people that are farther from death & on Hospice you basically keep them drugged up & they die of starvation several days later. For those not on Hospice they may die with horrible pain, like bone cancer victims. I also think the parents should be allowed to euthanize the profoundly mentally retarded. Some of those guys are kept in a bed most of their life. Sometimes they are restrained so they don't hurt themselves or their caregivers. They have no way of communicating pain so they may be in agony all of their life. Those people also end up dying from a respiratory infection at some point and if they are a ward of the state every effort is made to keep them alive. They call that living?

You should be helping guide our countries health-care.

Good post.

-John

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Yes but, I also believe abortions should be made retroactive up until age 18.

 

[Zorkorist]

Thanks for sharing an opinion from the health-care field. I am of an age that I've been close to a few who have let go from this world. Whether we live on or not, it is a time to finally realize that everything's temporary. Not everyone lets go peacefully or in the way they'd like. Would this be a way for people to 'die with dignity'?

My mom had a few strokes, and had expressed a desire to end things before it got worse. The final stroke knocked her unconscious. When I held her hand and spoke to her she tried to move her mouth, but her eyes never opened. She didn't want to be kept on machines, and the only one she was connected to was draining mucous. So she had to die drowning. If she had any awareness at all, I know she wouldn't have wanted to go that way.

We have drugs that let you let go very comfortably and peacefully.

And that's just my experience. I know nurses and doctors deal with this every day.

There's only one thing that's almost as bad to me as suffering, that's seeing someone else suffer. I truly honor those in health-care who care.

I've experienced death three times in my life. They all died horribly.

There really isn't a way to die, well.

-John

 

[compuwiz1]

I've experienced death three times in my life. They all died horribly.

There really isn't a way to die, well.

-John

Sleep and not wake up? Seems the painless way to go.

I'm very much for someone having the right to end their life. Some people have been dead for years and just suffering along. Why should they have to, especially against their will? Why are brain dead people kept alive, when there are no cases of recovery from being brain dead? We just had a case of a young man dying, at 26 years old, where he has been kept on life support since he was a toddler, because he drown in a pool. That made no sense.

 

[bradly1101]

I've experienced death three times in my life. They all died horribly.

There really isn't a way to die, well.

-John

But maybe there could be.

 

[LunarRay]

At the moment it seems the taking of a life is illegal even if it is your own except in four States. [not counting abortions]

I've seen where prisons spend lots of money to treat their inmates so they can execute them.... Equally puzzling would be the notion of a pregnant woman wanting to die assuming she had some insidious disease.

There is little doubt that we're all going to die at some point. But folks differ on under what circumstances they'd like to reach that point. Hawking has little more than a mind but endeavors to persevere. Some can't see value to living with a bunion on their foot....

End of the day... I think each ought to have the Right to their own decision to live or die depending on the degree to which they have the capacity to make that decision.

 

[bradly1101]

At the moment it seems the taking of a life is illegal even if it is your own except in four States. [not counting abortions]

I've seen where prisons spend lots of money to treat their inmates so they can execute them.... Equally puzzling would be the notion of a pregnant woman wanting to die assuming she had some insidious disease.

There is little doubt that we're all going to die at some point. But folks differ on under what circumstances they'd like to reach that point. Hawking has little more than a mind but endeavors to persevere. Some can't see value to living with a bunion on their foot....

End of the day... I think each ought to have the Right to their own decision to live or die depending on the degree to which they have the capacity to make that decision.

Ya mean like self determination? Nah....we can't allow that! Not in the 'land of the free'! ;-)