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Okay with it if it is truly the choice of the patient. Absolutely not if it is pressed on anyone, or if it is used as a means of cost control. If we legalize this, we must be very, very careful, because the potential for abuse is staggering.
We are now in the first and exploratory stage of self-initiated euthanasia. If it takes hold across society, it will end in the "Soylent Green" stage, where death panels, not the affected individuals, will determine when a life should be ended. If you're having a bitter dispute with neighbors, they may nominate you for this final solution. Greedy heirs could arrange for a wealthy older relative to be put on an express ride to their end. It could turn us into dehumanized adversaries and destroy much of what holds civilization together. Anything that is disguised as compassion, could put us on a slippery slope to these abuses. Policies that reduce the value of a human life, regardless of its level of decline, could lead to these consequences. I'm appalled that my own state is the first one to adopt "death with dignity".
I firmly believe that many (and probably most) hospitals and insurance companies are against the right-to-die movement because that would negatively affect their profits.
lol. It sure would put a big dent in these bogus so-called cancer hospitals.
Mostly I find this grotesque, and I find it disturbing that people keep pushing to end other peoples lives. I don't trust the reason given for the agenda. What do I think is the real agenda...still observing to figure that out, but this isn't sitting well with me and in time, I'll be able to explain better why.
A small part of me understands that people want to die, and we do put our pets down telling ourselves it's a mercy killing.
It's still a killing of someone who did not commit any crime....which is why I continue to struggle with it.
I support euthanasia for all of those living amongst us in wheelchairs or crutches for the rest of their lives, and for the terminally ill if they feel a need for it. If we in America can't strive for this ethic, we cannot call ourselves a compassionate society.
If I have terminal cancer, and I am in unimaginable pain as a large, inoperable tumor puts pressure on my brain, for the love of all things holy, please let me be euthanized. I'll sign whatever the hech they want me to.
It's time to stop ignoring the pink elephant in the room. In the future, people may find themselves out of options when it comes to affording further cancer treatment/other extensive healthcare.
If that's the case, why not allow people to be painlessly and quickly put down with dignity if they so choose? Why force them to be in long drawn out agony until they naturally succumb?
People could legally become euthanasia specialists if they choose - I certainly wouldn't make all doctors administer euthanasia. Probably best if they're separate occupations. Could be lots of jobs created from it.
Are you in favor of allowing people to choose to die with dignity?
Death is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better than being forced to live with a disease like Huntington's. Please put me down like a dog if I ever get Alzheimer's, severe Parkinson's, or related dementia.
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