State-sponsored Euthanasia

[Jock_Tams_Bairn]

Does anoyone here believe that state-sponsered "suicide" should be legal. Especially in cases where there is no more hope for life but constant pain and misery including cases where some-one has been in a coma for years and has no hope of recovery

[dogandgoldfish]

THERE ALREADY IS STATE SPONSORED EUTHANASIA, IT IS CALLED THE STATE PENSION, YOU KNOW, ITS THE ONE WHERE THE GOVERNMENT STARVES THE OLD FOLK TO DEATH, OR FREEZES THEM TO DEATH, OR BOTH, HAVING STRIPPED THEM OF MONEY FOR MOST OF THIER LIVES, THE GOVERNMENTS WHO PLAY GOD WITH OUR LIVES THEN STARVE THEM. NICE EH!

[Wizzi]

very funny d&g....droll like even....

in answer to the original question....

I dont know about the state sponsored side of it.. but i totally am all for euthanasia...

[JKennedy]

Euthanasia is a tough one. I think it gets more complicated when government and other establishments get too involved in matters of human dignity. Modern funerals are already too clinical. I don't think death should be like that. I think people need to find their own solutions.

[teashoci]

People have the right to plan their own deaths,

I think the morons who are opposed to euthanasia are torturers

[Celyn]

Originally Posted by JKennedy

............... I think people need to find their own solutions.

Well, yes. Solutions such as having the right to choose to arrange their own death without the government telling them that it is illegal.

[ANDY-J3]

I'm opposed to euthanasia and I think it should be discouraged. There have been cases of people being diagnosed as terminally ill who subsequently recovered. In fact the patient doesn't have ultimate control in choosing to arrange their own death because a doctor has the final say and they are not morally or legally bound to agree to the patient's wishes. It's an added burden for Doctors who already work under stressful conditions. In the Netherlands it was found that legalising euthanasia-

"tends to undermine the efforts and creativity of those commited to providing palliative care to a terminal patient."

http://www.spuc.org.uk/documents/papers/euthanasia.pdf