Saturday, October 31, 2009
Should physician assisted suicide be legal?
Answer:
Yes.
I don't want some radical Christian punk telling my family they can't turn of the machines because it's a sin.
Grow a brain, we're animals and why would you want to keep some one alive who has no chance of recovering?
no.
It is legal where I live, OREGON
Yes
No. Doctors take an oath that does not allow them to ethically do this. Besides, if it were legal, it would be misused. There have been instances in places where it is legal that people were euthanized against their wills.
yes
only if it will relieve suffering,
If someone refuses treatment because they want to die is that legal? To me it's the same thing. So, yes.
It already is...they are killing us with the high cost of medicine and treatment.
No, because of loop holes like these: doctors can kill their patients without their consent and the law will protect them because they have no proof that the patient didn't consent. Let's not make murder easy, guys. Any way you put it, assisted suicide = murder, consented or not. Even if a person is brain dead, who are doctors to decide if they should live or not? Definitely not God, they aren't.
Yes. You have to trust people that they know their needs and their limitations better than some blanket law hacked out in political games thousands of miles away. Leave decisions like that up to the people involved, not Big Government.
Legal or not, it's still unethical. All doctors pledge not cause any harm to others. Don't see how this can be fuzzy.
No. Just read the name. assisted SUICIDE. Suicide - the act of killing oneself. Would you help someone kill themself? Any logical person would say no. If no, they why are people willing to help "put to sleep" (thier pathetic term for killing) an old or hanicapped person?
yes. Pro choice is where it's at. whether at the beginning or end of life.
No, I don't believe in assisted suicide for the same reasons that I don't believe in suicide. It's against my religion.
If this practice becomes legal then people will abuse the system and probably get assisted suicides as a form of suicide. I believe that every patient should be given the chance to recover, and that oftentimes a bleak prognosis is not necessarily a precursor of continued deterioration.
no
I am a medical student and we have covered this topic.
It is legal in Oregon I believe.
As a physician we take an oath of "first do no harm",there for it is not right or justified to help someone kill themselves.
If such thing was legalized, there are potentials for abuse. In a study, done in Oregon. There have been roughly 400 some patients that have requested this from their physician. From those only 5 or so have gone through with it. This in my eyes shows that it is more a cry for help and attention that should be given to the patient than to empower them to take their life. For those that went through with it, it was a matter of control to a certain death. Chronic disease that eventually would lead to death, the patient wanted to have control over their death.
There are lots of loop holes a patient has to go through to make this happen....
I believe that in certain cases assisted suicide should be legal. If someone is terminally ill and in great pain it would be inhumane not to. That would be like finding a wounded animal knowing that you can't help him and keep him alive just so you could watch him suffer. That's just wrong! My grandfather died of lung cancer. His last 3 weeks he spent in the hospital in tremendous amount of pain but the doctors kept him alive as long as possible even though he had no chance. That's immoral and that's my opinion.
I'm assuming you mean helping someone kill them self by showing them the best way or whatever.
No, it's unnethical and goes against the hipporatic oath. HOWEVER, I understand in some instances. If the patient is someone who is going to die in a month, and so is his son if his son doesn't get a transplant, and the dads the only one that matches? I can basically understand that, but the doctor still shouldn't be helping him. And whose to say it would always be consentual? Suicide, not murder. that persons already dead, so there goes the evidence.
lets say i saw a guy laying on groundin obvious agony. Screaming please make it all stop. So i take his money as payment on assisted suicide and burial expenses and when i get caught i can plead assisted suicide? Thats the man upstairs job. when the time comes unplug the machines and let nature do what it needs to be. I had to pull plug on my mother. after a month in ic. because the doctors didnt take time to research but instead assumed her ailment. By the time a another doctor overheard us and stepped in 2 weekslater it was too late. 2 minutes extra 2 weeks prior my moms here. how is that legal?
This is a tough question. I am totally against murder, abortion ect. I don't think assisted suicide should be allowed either. There may be some special circumstances, but I can't think of any. I have seen death. Dying with cancer is very painful they say, but maybe it depends on the doctor. My friend died of prostate cancer. When I took him to the ER they made him say he understood he would most likely not be going home. I left the room very upset, But later realized whatever else they talked about, my friend really was never very concious of anything else. He was heavily medicated and slept almost all of the time until he died. I don't think he had any pain at that time. So what is the purpose of suicide? This is still a decision that has to be made by the person who is dying not by me or you.
No.
As Christians, we believe that human life is a sacred gift from God to be cherished and respected because every human being is created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26).
In heeding God’s command, "Thou shall not kill" (Exodus 20:13), we recognize that we cannot end of our lives or the lives of others as we please. We must respect and protect the dignity of human from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.
Euthanasia occurs when a doctor or medical staff person administers a lethal dose of medication with the intention of killing the patient.
Assisted suicide occurs when a doctor or medical staff person prescribes a lethal amount of medication with the intent of helping a person commit suicide. The patient then takes the dose or turns the switch.
We also recognize the need for the proper management of pain. Modern medicine provides effective treatments for pain that guarantees that no one will suffer a painful death. No one needs to escape pain by seeking death.
Suicidal wishes among the terminally ill are due to treatable depression similar to that of other suicidal people. If we address their pain, depression and other problems, then there is generally no more talk of suicide.
Repercussions of Assisted Suicide
+ The patient seriously, possibly completely, damages his or her relationship with God.
+ Anyone assisting a suicide gravely endangers his or her spiritual, psychological, and emotional well-being including family members and medical professionals.
+ Corruption of the medical profession: whose ethical code calls on physicians to serve life and never to kill. The American Medical Association, the American Nurses Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and dozens of other medical groups argue that the power to assist in taking patients’ lives is "a power that most health-care professionals do not want and could not control.”
+ Society will more and more disregards the dignity of human life.
Possible Corruptions
+ Exploitation of the marginalized: The poor, the elderly, minorities, those who lack health insurance would be the first to feel pressure to die.
+ Cost control: Patients with long term or expensive illnesses and considered economic liabilities would be encouraged die.
+ Rebirth of historical prejudices: Many able-bodied people, including some physicians, say they would "rather be dead than disabled." Such prejudices could easily lead families, physicians, and society to encourage death for people who are depressed and emotionally vulnerable as they adjust to life with a serious illness or disability.
Jesus uttered the words of faith that continue to inspire and to guide the Church’s teaching in this mystery of Christian death: "This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again" (John 10:17).
With love in Christ.
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