Assisted suicide.

• Tomates wrote on 2010-11-26 05:09

  Quote from yayforhanna;229065:

  There's a movie based on the example you put.
  It's called 'You don't know Jack'
  based on a true story of a former doctor who was helping patients who were in so much pain that they didn't want to live anymore. Everyone thought what he was doing was murder and thought he was crazy.
  
  Heres my opinion on a matter such as that : I think everyone and everything should be given a chance at life. (I'm prolife when it comes to abortion)
  But I think death should be a choice too. Of course for the own persons life.
  Yes, suicide is selfish and all you are doing is hurting others but I think it should be a choice.
  A lot of you may disagree with my views.
  But most people for abortion are against suicide.
  So you would take away an infants chance at life but wont allow someone who is in mental or physical pain their chance at death.
  Doesn't make much sense to me.
  It may sound dramatic but if suicide was a accepted choice I would, it's not that I'm depressed, my life is alright. But I've always wondered if life was really worth living.
  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

  
  
  My mom knew that doctor...there was a huge ordeal over it because he would dump the bodies at the Hospital that my mom was working at. Intense **** right?
  But the thing that he was doing was that he wasn't assisting those who were terminally ill. He was assisting those who had emotional problems, or people who just didn't want to live anymore.
• Navy wrote on 2010-11-26 21:33
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• Adelynn wrote on 2010-11-27 00:11
  I think that a person should have a choice. Not everyone is the same, not everyone should be expected to have the same strength. Furthermore, I don't think anyone can really imagine what their situation is like until they're in the same emotional/physical/mental state. It can be a selfish thing to do, yes, but not everyone that wants to take their own life does it for what others would call "petty" reasons.
  
  EDIT: Besides, if you people that say that really think that people are capable of overcoming such painful things as losing someone they love, wouldn't they be able to overcome the suicide of this loved one?
• Osayidan wrote on 2010-11-28 02:30
  I'm pro-choice from pre-cradle to grave.
  
  I am anti-cowardly suicide though. As in most teenagers who think the world is against them and want to end it all, people with huge debts, or people getting bullied into killing themselves or that type of crap. People who do that have no respect from me and I would gladly urinate on their graves.
  
  However if someone's got no cowardly reason to end their life, I think they should go for it. Especially the older folks who have had a good life and are happy but have nothing left they want to do in this world. So when it comes to euthanasia (which is the name of this medical suicide thing), I'd say it's up to them, and is no one's business except the patient and his loved ones (with the final decision being the patient's unless he's medically proven to be mentally unfit).
• Zid wrote on 2010-11-29 22:14
  Their decision, I guess. Though, everybody has to be on board with it, in my opinion. Also, if the patient doesn't have any chance of recovering to a normal state of mentality or surviving, then their choice.
  
  Now, if the patient is suffering, but can survive and be back on his or her feet in a stable and fit condition, I just think assisted suicide shouldn't even be thought of in the first place.
• Ailyene wrote on 2010-12-06 10:38
  No. Another person should not be responsible for helping you die whether you're suffering or not. That puts a huge weight on their shoulders. If they have enough energy to ask a nurse to help them suicide, they should go pull the plug themselves. It's not exactly hard...and why should the poor nurse bear your burden?