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The Right to Die

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Don Rizzle:

--- Quote from: $ on October 05, 2005, 08:42:14 AM ---
--- Quote from: I Want My Donation Back on October 05, 2005, 06:51:33 AM ---I have no concrete feelings on it, it's a hard subject.  Do you really want Doctors having the right to kill people?  How long before they kill all the poor they're in charge or watching but aren't paying their doctor bills?  Think about that for a while. 

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If a law was passed, things like that could be avoided if the patient had to get a judge's approval for a doctor to perform the assissted suicide. There has to be a legitimate reason why they want to be euthanised.

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i agree, i support it in theory but it could easily get abused by money hungry relatives so a judge could decide whether its in the patients interest or not, but the only problem with this is that it would probably take to long to get any judgement.

Sikotic™:
Everyone has the right to choose when they want to die definitely. It's just the fact that it can be so easily abused that it's a very delicate issue.

Trauma makes a good point too. Docs arent suppose to kill people, it defeats their purpose. The creed of a doctor is suppose to be the Hippocratic Oath, which basically says that a physician will do anything in their power physically to keep a person alive. We'll have a bunch of corrupt docs unless there is a certain type of person with only a license to euthanize someone.

Then you can get into issues with children that have terminal illnesses. Does the parent have the right to have them euthanized because thy are the child's guardian or does the kid, who is too immature to make big decisions, have the right?

I have a bunch of detailed stats on this whole situation because I've done like 2 papers and a oral presentation on euthanasia lol. I'll put some up if I can find them.

Trauma-san:
Here's what nobody wants to admit, but you have to somewhere inside KNOW that it's true.


There's no answer.



Nobody likes to hear that, but this is a subject that there isn't a consensus on , and there will never be a consensus on. 

I'm kind of, of the belief as well that if someone truly 'wants' to die, they will die.  If someone doesn't want to live, no doctor's going to keep them alive... which leads me to believe that if people are in the hospital on a ventilator and shit, they probably still want somewhere inside to be alive, or they'd just give up the ghost. 

J Bananas:
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Uhh, what if they're so fuckin drugged up and braindead they cant leave the ghost?

Trauma-san:
^ You don't understand what I'm talking about, I'm talking about spiritual things and you're probably not a spiritual person.  Which I can understand.  If you're not spiritual you wouldn't believe or agree with my point anyways, which is fine. 

Here, I'll explain it a little more.  Next time you're at a cemetary, go around and look at all the double plots.  Not all the time, but MANY times, you'll see where a man and his wife died within a couple months of each other.  Now, what are the odds of that?  Was she really just as sick as he was, and just lasted 2 months longer or something?  No, she just got tired of living.  Something in her soul didn't want to be on earth anymore, so she lost the desire to live, and died.  People lying in hospital beds paralyzed and deathly ill and shit I think still have something inside of them that allows them to either keep fighting, or just let it go and die. 

There's no proof of that, of course, so I can understand if you don't agree. 

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