darkSpyro

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pro life pro choice??
i think this is a good idea for people with terminal illnesses. who wants to suffer when they have the choice of passing peacefully?

This topic will go well....

I was raised on the belief that it was the choice of the patient. My Grandmother always said that if she were suffering she wouldn't want to be drawn on. Sadly she didn't quite get that but it could have been far worse.

Pro choice. Euthanasia should be a requirement standard/option for all vets and doctors to have on the table for their patients and those patients loved ones.

Some vets are so ****ing pro-life that they'll accuse dog owners of "Getting rid of a problem" or generally being a bad owner, despite the animal people would bring into a vet would be clearly dying from something clearly incurable.

Proooooo-Choice


BUT BUT only if they are in serious pain

I myself am against abortion, but I am pro-choice in this situation

Pro choice all the way.

i say we kill everyone

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i say we kill everyone

How bout half of everyone?

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i say we kill everyone

How bout half of everyone?

**** youre right

100% pro choice. We put our pets down out of compassion so they don't have to suffer, yet we can't even do that for our family members. We should have a choice to go peacefully, especially if the alternative is a long, painful, drawn out death from disease or cancer. I actually did my senior report on "assisted suicide", which is kind of an ugly name for it.

Pro choice

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i say we kill everyone

agreed

luckily i don't need six stupid cosmic fruity pebbles to do it

Yeah, half of everyone just needs to say Necrozma sucks and then half of everyone gets permabanned from life.

pro choice man

This is a lot less ugly than I thought it would be

For terminal illness or life-changing injuries, definitely.

For extreme old age, maybe.

For suicidal tendencies, I don't think so.

the only people that seem to disagree with it are religious freaks and pro lifers. i've seen the stupidest arguments on this topic in facebook comments.

i think for terminal illnesses its a must but i don't think it should be used for depressed people. i don't remember where i read this but i know some people think that we should be able to assist clinically depressed people in committing suicide. like that is so messed up. mental health gets so much more awareness now than it did a couple decades ago so i can't believe people think that should be legal. there are always new depression treatments in development. i think helping someone depressed off themselves is just another way of saying "we give up on you"

After seeing some news threads about the person who made use of that at 104 years old, pretty much what Metallo said. It's way too easy to get lost in your own despair and make a choice you can't go back from even if deep down you don't actually want it; just look at lots of people who jumped off of bridges and survived, instantly regretting what they did. Maybe one day there won't be a whole crowd of people saying they'd rather die when they "just feel like it" at 20 and patting themselves in the back, but until there's better treatment for mental issues, better leave it to cases where there's really nothing else to be done.

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the only people that seem to disagree with it are religious freaks and pro lifers. i've seen the stupidest arguments on this topic in facebook comments.

i think for terminal illnesses its a must but i don't think it should be used for depressed people. i don't remember where i read this but i know some people think that we should be able to assist clinically depressed people in committing suicide. like that is so messed up. mental health gets so much more awareness now than it did a couple decades ago so i can't believe people think that should be legal. there are always new depression treatments in development. i think helping someone depressed off themselves is just another way of saying "we give up on you"

This summarizes my feelings on this. I was a little shocked reading through this topic because I didn't realize people were discussing terminal illnesses, I thought this was in the case of depression.

I've been at points in my life where I've been suicidal and every time it's been a temporary feeling, and because of that and how depression can be treated and all I don't think something like this should be offered to a depressed individual. Even if they can prove that they are of "sound mind".

I do agree that it shouldn't be used in cases of depression. I think that would lead to a slippery slope of people giving up on life since there's a painless death available. And who, in that depression mindset, would choose to continue on the long, painful road of recovery if that option was easily available? I know of suicidal people who aren't scared of being dead, but scared of the process of dying, and without that fear..... Yeah. It's just not right. Depressed people deserve help to KEEP living, to cope, to overcome depression- Not to just... give up. Offering something like this to someone who is depressed is totally different than offering terminally ill people a humane death, to me.

And realistically, the process to get approved for something like this at this time would be/is probably a lengthy one.

No one else has brought up injuries, so I'll just say my piece on that here.

If I was, say, in a car wreck and ended up as a quadriplegic, I'd probably want to die. I can think of very few people who wouldn't.


Discuss.

Basically what Dirt and Darby said

I am pro choice

Yes. If a person is suffering perpetually and living in a horrid state, I say put the poor sod out of his misery.

i agree with the consensus but it gets kinda fuzzy when you start debating who gets to pull the plug on all those people. i wouldn't want to be the person to do that even to someone in a coma or whatever

killing people because they're depressed seems....like a little much to me. depression isn't a terminal illness, it can get better and be treated.

I'm not opposed to the option being there. But it's so legally and ethically gray that I don't see it feasibly being an option that would be available in the American health care system. And if it were, it'd be subject to some sort of governmental oversight... and I wouldn't be surprised if most doctor's opt not to offer it out of fear of being sued by family members unable to accept the fact that their loved one would opt for euthanasia.