Euthenasia, right or wrong?

[sunndoggy8]

If someone wanted to take their own life, should they be allowed to? Was Jack Kevorkian wrong for what he was trying to do?

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[HordeKing1]

SUNNDOGGY8 - Your heading specifies "ehthenasia" but I'm going to respond in a scope that's a little more broad..

Suicide is not the answer to any of life's emotional problems. Emotional problems can and do get better.

In certain instances, however, allowing someone to die or assisting them to achieve this purpose (like Kevorkian) is the greatest kindness one can give.

This is most easily illustrated by imagining a person in intractable pain such as end stage liver cancer. (Unfortuantely, most of us have known people in similar circumstances.) There is no cure. Death is a few days or weeks away. Until then, there is only unimaginable pain and progressive loss of dignity.

Helping such a person kill themselves and escape their litteral agony is the only humane thing to do.

It constantly amazes me that we expect vetrinarians to kill a dog to prevent its needless suffering but we do not routinely extend the same humanity to our own species.

In circumstances like that described above, suicide is understandable and right for many people. The doctors or friends who assist them accomplish their desire should be praised for understanding suffereing and trying to allieviate it.

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[sunndoggy8]

I agree with you that in some cases, letting someone with a terminal illness/disease is the best thing for the person, and what they truly do want. I think it's a horrible injustice that a person like Kevorkian, who used such high standards for those he would help die, is in jail...he should have been praised for the courage he had in helping people who wanted to die...it's really sad, in my opinion.

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[adolescentmasturbator]

I am deeply affected by this issue. My aunt recently just died from MS after 20 cruel years. They tried everything under the sun to cure her but nothing worked. Towards the end she wanted to die but she couldn't take recourse to euthanasia. If her suffering could just stop much sooner how could you even question stopping it.

[vegeta]

I think that any person who is at the end of their live, whether they be 8 or 80, should be given the right to end ther lives in peace. I know that i'm not in control of the day I die, but if I was, I would want to go out in my sleep, peacefully and easily

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