Assisted Suicide

[Peter Parka]

There was a program about it recently presented by Terry Pratchett. My view on it stays the same though I found the whole thing quite disturbing. This is the footage of it though it cuts out the guys last moments here, he was spluttering and asking for water before keeling over and dying. Thougts? Dont watch if easily disturbed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GK3eNWrx18&feature=related

 

[Joe the meek]

It beats putting a bullet in your head and having someone find you.

IMO the guy had every right to end his own life due to his own circumstances.

 

[Zorak]

It beats putting a bullet in your head and having someone find you.

IMO the guy had every right to end his own life due to his own circumstances.

:homo:

It's the last true freedom revoked.

 

[Alien Allen]

I got no problem at all with what he did

It is his life and not for me to judge

Only question I have is what was wrong with him as he seemed to have a bit more life to live

Never saw something where one could drink like that. I am only familiar with intravenous

 

[dkwrtw]

I believe a man has the right to end his life in a time and manner of his choosing, I support this.

 

[Joe the meek]

Only question I have is what was wrong with him as he seemed to have a bit more life to live

I believe he had ALS.

I can't even begin to fathom the life sentence a person must feel knowing that they are going to die a pretty horrible death.

 

[Joe the meek]

I believe a man has the right to end his life in a time and manner of his choosing, I support this.

IMO unless a person is going to die a known "hard" death, anyone person who chooses to end their own life for any other reason is a good for nothing chicken shit coward.

 

[phroxy]

IMO unless a person is going to die a known "hard" death, anyone person who chooses to end their own life for any other reason is a good for nothing chicken shit coward.

perhaps.. but i think i'm all for personal liberty. if someone wants to take their own life, let em. better that than letting their family discover them bloody and dead in their house.

 

[Natasha]

perhaps.. but i think i'm all for personal liberty. if someone wants to take their own life, let em. better that than letting their family discover them bloody and dead in their house.

Suicide is suicide...just b/c the family doesn't find a bloody body doesn't make it any easier. Believe me, suicide is a very painful thing for family and friends to deal with...seeing the body is not even CLOSE to being the most painful part of that.

Having said that, I have not watched the video but I *do* support euthanasia. I think it's a fucked up world we live in when we can put our animals down when they are in too much pain but leave humans to languish in misery where their only choice for relief from pain is to be so doped up they have no clue what is going on around them.

Oh no...I stumbled into the debate area again. Eek!!! Let's see how long before I have to unsubscribe, LOL

 

[phroxy]

Suicide is suicide...just b/c the family doesn't find a bloody body doesn't make it any easier. Believe me, suicide is a very painful thing for family and friends to deal with...seeing the body is not even CLOSE to being the most painful part of that.

Having said that, I have not watched the video but I *do* support euthanasia. I think it's a fucked up world we live in when we can put our animals down when they are in too much pain but leave humans to languish in misery where their only choice for relief from pain is to be so doped up they have no clue what is going on around them.

Oh no...I stumbled into the debate area again. Eek!!! Let's see how long before I have to unsubscribe, LOL

Oh I don't doubt it's extremely painful either way. iunno, i've never experienced anyone in my family or any of my friends commit suicide. but if the family is aware of the decision before it happens.. doesn't it take away some of the SHOCK?

 

[Darrell]

I think if assisted suicide was legal it would lose that "suicide" stigma, Tasha, and ultimately become more widely accepted for the terminally ill, and others much like hospice.

 

[Natasha]

Oh I don't doubt it's extremely painful either way. iunno, i've never experienced anyone in my family or any of my friends commit suicide. but if the family is aware of the decision before it happens.. doesn't it take away some of the SHOCK?

I would think so. And I know that I personally would much rather my family member die peacefully by slipping into some kind of medically induced coma than have to resort to some type of violent method of suicide.

I think if assisted suicide was legal it would lose that "suicide" stigma, Tasha, and ultimately become more widely accepted for the terminally ill, and others much like hospice.

I think so, too. And I get the resistance from people to support "assisted suicide"...but if it were allowed legally, restrictions COULD be put on it. I obviously don't agree w/ assisted suicide in a case where someone just isn't happy w/ their life or just broke up w/ their girlfriend or whatever. Hospice is a great program and the people that work there are definitely special people...I don't know that I could do it.

 

[NuckingFuts]

Me and my family sat for hours and a couple weeks watching our mother who was terminal from Pancreatic Cancer and MS slowley die. I would find myself praying that god would just take her and end her suffering. The day that it happened brought so much pain and strangly so much joy into my life. Just knowing that my mom was gone, yet she was reunited with my father and with all those that had gone before her.


So my point is. That we are more humane to animals by putting them down, than we are to humans and that just is not right.
I support what that man did.

 

[Dana]

Suicide is suicide... It's a selfish way out.

 

[Natasha]

Suicide is suicide... It's a selfish way out.

I disagree. There's a huge difference in being 22 years old and thinking your world is over b/c some girl dumped you and being 22 years old and battling some type of terminal illness that has robbed you of any quality of life.

 

[Abcinthia]

I watched the show when it aired. I thought it was disturbing for the same reasons Peter but it didn't change my views.

If someone doesn't want to die slowly or be in a lot of mental or physical pain then who are we to judge. Whilst suicide is a difficult thing to come to terms with for the people left behind, I do think people should be able to choose when to die or how they do it, if they want. Forcing people to stay alive when they don't want to is an awful thing to do; to me that's just as bad as ending someone's life when they want to live.

 

[Springsteen]

Yeah I share the same view as many of you, if a person no longer feels he/she can enjoy a quality of life because of something which is severely hindering it such as cancer then I fully support them committing suicide via a supported method, it's not a cowards way out.

 

[hart]

Well I've posted this before so to encapsulate. I was basically asked by the hospital if they were to withhold a drug from my mother who's cancer reached her brain but her heart was strong that she'd have a seizure and die shortly. I said don't give her the drug to stop the seizure.

I do believe in assisted suicide as dkwrtw stated.

 

[Panacea]

Forcing people to stay alive when they don't want to is an awful thing to do; to me that's just as bad as ending someone's life when they want to live.

So perfectly put.

 

[Guyzerr]

but if it were allowed legally, restrictions COULD be put on it.

fyi....

" Death with Dignity Act "

" On October 27, 1997 Oregon enacted the Death with Dignity Act which allows terminally-ill Oregonians to end their lives through the voluntary self-administration of lethal medications, expressly prescribed by a physician for that purpose. The Oregon Death with Dignity Act requires the Oregon Department of Human Services to collect information about the patients and physicians who participate in the Act, and publish an annual statistical report. "

Link: http://public.health.oregon.gov/Pro...Research/DeathwithDignityAct/Pages/index.aspx