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Would you mercy kill your disabled 11 year old daughter?

It depends on the disability. I didn't understand what it meant when the father said:



<< "You don't know what it's like to have a kid who hurts so bad that she begs you to end her life," court documents say Harrold told police. >>



The article didn't mention some sort of illness which caused her to be in pain, but rather that she was just OCD. Now, if my child was horribly handicapped and in constant, uncontrollable pain, I might seek doctor assisted suicide. Strange...

Ryan
 
hmm, i think he was messed up in the head.

i have ocd, and i dont ask people to end my life.

ocd isnt non-curable, there are things to help you to be able to cope with day to day life.

he's a liar, and i hope he rots in jail for hurting a little girl who had a bright future ahead of her. just cuz she slapped another girl they said she is beyond help? wtf is that?
 
This was just a clown tired of dealing with his responsibility. OCD can be controlled, so his whole story is bs. The death penalty should be his reward.
 
Everything is possible so I would have to admit the possibility of a situation where a mercy killing might apply (can't think of one though).

In this situation, it sounds like the guy took the easy way out and was more concerned about his life, rather then his daughter's life. Hopefully he gets some long prison time; the inmates really enjoy making lives miserable for folks like this, and he could spend the next 40 years never sleeping on his back or constantly picking up the soap in the community showers.
 
That's terrible...

and I don't think I could ever bring myself to kill anyone, mercy or otherwise. If it came down to him/her being in unbearable pain (and zero chance of recovery), I would have the doctor prescribe morphine, and if the dose had to be upped enough to be lethal, then that's what would have to happen. But the Dr. would do it (or the patient him/herself)... not me.

God I hope I never have to face that kind of situation.

l2c
 
This guy is a nut but to answer question if I could do it I have to say I don't not know and I hope I never have to be put in a situation where I would find out.
 
Holy hell!

THIS is where we've gotten to? That we "mercy-kill" people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder"?

So, if someone has anything wrong with them - if they aren't perfect - we can "mercy-kill" them, right?

In fact, why don't we seperate humanity into 2 parts - the normal people we can call the "Master Race", and the abnormal people can be "Defects". Then we simply "cleanse" humanity of the defects and we have a perfect society.

Floor is open for who we can lump into the mercy-kill category:

The elderly
The sick
The handicapped
People with disorders
Criminals

anyone else?

[/angry, furious, disgusted sarcasm]
 


Tiffany, Gray said, was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder and "needed more help than we could offer her."


Obsessive compulsive disorder??? I am not a doctor but don't think that is a terminal disease but rather a mental disorder that can be cured. This guy should fry.
 


<< Floor is open for who we can lump into the mercy-kill category:

The elderly
The sick
The handicapped
People with disorders
Criminals

anyone else? >>

Don't forget all the gay people.
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l2c
 


<< i have ocd, and i dont ask people to end my life...ocd isnt non-curable, there are things to help you to be able to cope with day to day life. >>

Gee, I know a guy who broke his neck and it wasn't paralyzing, he had surgery to fuse and stabilize his spine and he walks, runs, is able to get around just fine. Does that mean that all broken necks are "curable"?

Your OCD isn't everyone's OCD. This is one particular disorder that can be remarkably different from one person to the next.

I'm not saying this guy was right or wrong, because I haven't even read the article (not that reading a simple article could possibly give enough information to make a judgement), but to say the girl couldn't have wished for her life to end because you didn't is a bit arrogant.
 
Wow, who was the one who needed help in this scenario? I can understand why she would slap the other girl, well, I see where she got it from. I mean, she got mad and slapped another kid. Her dad had a rough day so he starts killing people. What a wack job.
 
tcsenter: i agree with what you are saying. but regardless of how bad it was do you think the guy would have been justified in killing her? i don't. i hope he goes away for a LONG time because of it.
 


<< tcsenter: i agree with what you are saying. but regardless of how bad it was do you think the guy would have been justified in killing her? i don't. i hope he goes away for a LONG time because of it. >>


Would killing this guy be justified?

He might have made a fault, he might be mentally unstable, neither can be confirmed by any of us, since we lack the necessary information.

Yet regardless, if this individual proves to be mentally unstable, he should be kept out of society, and research on his failure to act in an acceptable manner would have to be conducted.
 
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