How do you think euthanasia should be legal?
925457
Yes I do.  If you are ill and ready to go I think they should help you.\nWe do have DNR but that is if you are dire straights.  People are suffering all the time but get no relief and should be able to.
864658
Not at all.  If someone wants to end their life, it should be THEIR decision.  Who is ANYone to tell me what to do with my body?  \n\nSo far, the government says I can't end my own life, and can't ingest drugs of my choice...both of which can be done without providing an ounce of revenue to a corporation or government btw.  So, why doesn't the govenment stop people from eating themselves to death?  I can sit at McDonalds and down big mac after big mac until I run out of dough, day in and day out, and become the fattest most digusting unhealthy blob of an individual, but as soon as I ingest a "controlled substance", or put a gun to my head, I'm in violation of the law.  How does that make sense?\n\nBTW, you can't compare this to abortion.  Aborted fetuses have no choice, but people stricken with terminal disease should be able to choose their own destiny.
1105373
1.) Not sure that they feel pain, if they did I would think it would kill them because they are so fragile \n2.)The child is alive when there is a heartbeat.\n3.)That is life, a heartbeat, we know that someone is dead if they have no pulse and are alive if they do right?.\n4.) I don't think it should be legal except in the case of rape (which by the way you should have gotten the morning after pill if you went to the doctor anyway) or if it will cause the mother to die. \n5-6.)Yes, murder is taking the life of someone else. If they have a heartbeat and you take it from them for your own personal gain then yes. it is murder. especially in the case of partial birth abortion. That is just brutal.\n 8.)The government does need a say because they need to make the law,\n7.) should men? That is a hard one. A lot of men want children so badly and the only way to have your own child is if a women carries it but should they be able to tell a woman not to have a child? Absolutely not. So since a woman has the right to say you are relinquished of all resposibilities to this child part of me says the father should have the same rights but it is the womans body unfortunatly.\n10.) I can't stand the idea of abortion because I love children so much and I see so many people using it as a form of birth control and saying that it is a womans choice... well they also had the choice to wear a condom, to take a form of birth control (both free at family planning) and also the choice to not have sex! This is where I justify rape victims as they didn't have a chance to choose but all the other already made thier choice. Now they want to choose death for thier child because they are too young!?! Well then maybe you are too young for sex too. \n\nHow it affects me? High blood pressure and tears on my pillow at night.\n\nDoes no one rember ADOPTION is a possibility!?! All this "well the child would be abused" crap or "I couldn't give it a good life because I was too young" is rediculous! There are women all over crying for a child every night...did you forget about them!?
783688
Abolish the death penelty.\n\nNo country can rightiously talk of justice and terror, when it can legally murder its own citizens.
234250
Euthenasia is not legal but it should be.\n\nThose that suffer while dying should be allowed to control how and when they die. Do die without suffering is humane.
482408
no i don't think any drugs should be legal at all, look at all the damage it does to people and their families not to mention the money spent on them.  Not even cigarettes should be legal, who wants to throw their life away or give themselves diseases.  Besides drugs only need to be taken once to kill somebody.
816986
not quite the same thing really....although i am in favour of eutahnasia which should be strictly controlled and not  used as an excuse to get rid of people that we feel as a society are no longer able to contribute to our society..i,,m not in favour of the death penalty..you only have to look at the tragic case of Timothy Evans who hanged after being wrongly convicted of murdering his wife and baby daughter..in the end it turned out to be Christie,,what would you do then? you cannot bring back an innocent man from the dead and if this doesn,t convince you then just look at al the miscarriages of justice there have been
856837
Too many people believe it's a sin and you'll go to hell for suicide.  Others believe than you should have the right to terminate your own life with dignity when it becomes unbearable.  And then there is the issue of those who are too ill to speak for themselves and have not left an advance directive (or living will).  So... oppression because of religion, again!
190834
First of all, this a question that has no clear answer. If a pet has no chance of survival people put it to sleep. Now, if you take the same reasoning, technically, yes, a person who is brain dead may be put to sleep or taken off the life support by considering them as dead. But, the problem is, if euthanasia is leagalized, will it be misused? Therefore, it depends on the case. I personally would hate to see people suffer. Both the ailing person and the person who has to look after that person suffer a lot. I support the ideology but cannot look upon cold blooded murder as mercy killing. It simply shocks and revolts me. Euthanasia carried out with the permission of the person may be treated as suicide. But again, it is just as good as assisting someone to commit suicide by helping them put the noose around their neck.
1083078
I personally feel Euthanasia is wrong. It is suicide and that to me is wrong in my spiritual beliefs.  Although, I do find it quite similar to us "Putting to Sleep" our pets and other animals.  Thanks to Terry Shiveo (I know I spelled her name wrong), Now people have thought to sign "DNR" papers.  I think that these papers are the same as Euthanasia.  Even though it is just saying not to help the person if they are truely hurt, but isn't that the same as asking to be killed...??
818143
I think it should be a fundamental constitutional right.\n\nThe Oregon Death with Dignity Act, by voter initiative, allows for physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill, mentally competent individuals subject to several restrictions.  Once Bush got into office, his evangelical Attorney General attempted to use federal statutes regulating the use of prescription medication to overturn the Oregon law.  (So much for Republicans being federalists and conservatives...that's when I stopped voting Republican.)\n\nThe Supreme Court has implied several "constitutional rights" from the scant text of the Fourteenth Amendment to the constitution ("due process"), which are premised on the notion that to have a real functioning democracy, one should have certain inalienable rights not specifically mentioned in the Bill of Rights.  One of the most controversial is the right to privacy, which covers a large - e.g., right to not have the government interfere in family matters (except incest, statutory rape, and polygamy), the right to keep the government from making a woman carry a child to term (subject to a variety of restrictions after the fetus is viable).  That said, shouldn't the right to end your own life to stop the pain of an incurable terminal disease (with the restrictions similar to those allowed under Oregon statutes) be a fundamental civil right?
610355
It does seem like sterilizing a needle for a person that is being killed by the government don't it. I think a person ought to be able to choose their own path to hell. So why are their such laws.
64141
This issue has always been difficult for me.  Not the part about giving people a real say in what happens to them at the end of their life.  That to me is only natural.  It's always been my concern at how something like that could be abused, and also where the line is drawn that says, "Here you can choose to end your life and here you can't".  \n\nWe as a society have done such a marvelous job of finding ways to kill one another and yet we still can't adequately figure out how to best do it to ourselves.\n\nAs far as it being done legally, Oregon permits physician-assisted suicides.  Here is a link to the state's site on the subject.  I wish you peace and comfort as you struggle with how best to help your loved one.
991865
What sad answers.  Do you realize how unfeeling and cold your answers are.  How can you pass a law and make it OK for some doctor to puncture a hole in your babies head, suck its brains out and kill him or her and then pull the dead child out and tell me that is acceptable.  You are the same people that want to put someone in jail for being inhumane to animals.  Now I think they are both wrong but I do think the first is a sin.  That same child once it is born alive if you smothered it because you did not want it you would go to jail.  Now tell me what is the difference.  Either way it is a living human being.  A child in the womb cannot live if the mother does not take care of herself and eat properly in other wards you have to take care of it, a baby has to be taking care of by the mother or someone who cares.  They are both still life, why should it be legal to throw an unborn child away.  The funny thing is there was a man here in NC that took an animal,cut the unborn pups out and killed them the out cry was loud.  But those same people who were appalled at this would not blink when the same thing is done to a human being.  \nPlease people wake up, you should not have the RIGHT to kill a child any child.  If you do not want children use a condon, the pill, abstanance & if you get pregnant take care of that child and when it is born give it up for adoption, they at least deserve that.
486991
I believe passive and active should both be allowed. When someones life is torture, if it be mental or physical pain, they should be allowed to end their pain.\n\nAnyone who bases their answer on religion needs to realize that this is a serious issue, and should be taken seriously.
311004
I am against it 'because we have no right to kill people. It is unethical for any doctor to declare that a patient is going to die or can't survive for long. Doctors keep on struggling to see a patient alive.So how can any one end somebodies life prematurely.It is UNETHICAL.
841328
i would. i want to see what it's like to see what the wait for death is for. why so many people think it is horrible. i think death is only horrible for people who's loved one dies.\nthat's a great question. are you like a psychiatrist?\nif not you should consider.\ni'm serious.