• Assisted suicide
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[QUOTE=ThisGuy0;24640643]What's wrong with lethal injection? It seems like the most painless way to kill someone.[/QUOTE] Actually, you're wrong. It's a very painful and sadistic way to die. Of course you're feeling pain, but you're crippled and unable to make sound to show this. Your veins are on fire and all you can do is lie down and die.
[QUOTE=VeryNiceGuy;24642607]Actually, you're wrong. It's a very painful and sadistic way to die. Of course you're feeling pain, but you're crippled and unable to make sound to show this. Your veins are on fire and all you can do is lie down and die.[/QUOTE] Depends on what you're being injected with.
Let's look at it from the view of the person who is going to die. Your miserable, suffering, and always in pain from whatever flesh eating disease you have. Would you like to keep like this for the rest of your sad life and cost your family money, time, and emotional pain? If this where me, I would do it.
Nonreligious, should be legal... but what the fuck does this have to do with religion?
If we are talking about people killing themselves due to depression, then no. [editline]05:31PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Mac2468;24642666]Depends on what you're being injected with.[/QUOTE] Honestly I would prefer being shot than by lethal injection.
[QUOTE=NotMeh;24643483]Nonreligious, should be legal... but what the fuck does this have to do with religion?[/QUOTE] normally you're condemned to hell for suicide idiot
I'd rather superglue my hands to my head and hang myself from a large building with piano wire.
[QUOTE=NotSo1337;24638004]Everyone wants to control one another. You help someone in killing themselves and people will try to control you and send you to jail for it. They don't care about what you did, they just want to know they have authority over you, and use what you did as an excuse. Democracy sucks. [sp]Everyone votes for an asshole power maniac in disguise.[/sp] If someone wants to die and they can live a somewhat normal life, I think it's best to try to convince them to not end their life. If they cannot live a normal life, I say help them.[/QUOTE] I honestly think it is only moral and right to let people who can't do anything to help themselves die in peace. It isn't your life, it isn't your right to stop them from stopping their lives if they have, or others cannot help it.
It should be legal but have an age limit, say 21 or 25 or something.. I think we would see alot of teen suicides if this was legalized.
[QUOTE=Silly Sil;24636714]If someone has no chance of recovery and is going to die/turn into a plant/has already become a plant then why not? But if someone wants to die because he lost his legs or something then it shouldn't be allowed. Also no effort from the OP.[/QUOTE] Isn't the correct term "vegetable"?
[QUOTE=Vronkio;24644726]Isn't the correct term "vegetable"?[/QUOTE] It's a common name not a scientific term. Correct term would be "persistent vegetative state" not "vegetable".
[QUOTE=Mac2468;24642052]Therapy. :colbert:[/QUOTE] No, it doesn't work. They still struggle with the urges for the rest of their lives.
Euthanasia and assisted suicide are two different things.
[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;24645001]No, it doesn't work. They still struggle with the urges for the rest of their lives.[/QUOTE] Same as any addict.
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Assisting Euthanasia? Question: Don't they already have enough kids over there as it is?
Of course it should be legal. I can't imagine (as an example) a life being paralyzed from neck and down. I'd rather die.
I'm christian, however I lean strongly towards scientific studies while praying for a better tomorrow. I believe assisted suicide should be legal, as long as a) the patient has a way to cancel the process while it's being done, b) gets time to regret, c) gets an offer for medical help, and d) doesn't do it in public or harm others
[QUOTE=The Riddler;24645337]Assisting Euthanasia? Question: Don't they already have enough kids over there as it is?[/QUOTE] But seriously! I prefer to examine this ideal with the partiality of a Libertarian. That being the case, I think people should be able to do anything they want so long as they're not harming anyone else. So if someone truly believes that they can't go on any longer, they should be permitted by law to kill themselves. Added to which, I think that a person's sense of rationality is a qualification which needs to be met before they can commit suicide. And by the way, I'm just putting it out there, anyone who wants to learn more about this should watch Kervorkian.
I wished my grandmother could have had the right to end my grandfathers life when he was condemned to die high on morphine not knowing anything, unable to do anything but stare at the ceiling for no other purpose than giving his family the pain of seeing him, the man who was once so strong, lie dying for over a month on the same spot.
[QUOTE=rooky;24636617]Do you believe in assisted suicide - as in euthanasia given by a doctor? I personally believe that it should be legal everywhere. What good is it for example, to have old people with no friends, family wishing to die in nursing homes? There's no point in just sedating them. They're not happy, not functioning, and at the most basic level - they take up room. Feeding them pills and sending them on their way isn't the right way to do it.[/QUOTE] If you're stupid enough to want to die because of some sort of event, you should die. It'll increase our over-all IQ, because all the stupid people will die off.
I have a friend whose grandmother is in her 90s, and she's really gone off the deep end. She's like a completely different person, she's violent, and never was like that before. At that age, you really can't enjoy things anymore, and I think it should be legal to speed up the process that's already happening.
I remember reading a study that in countries were assisted suicide was legal, that around 50-60 of the assisted suicides went against the patients consent due to paper work and legal mix ups.
I'm completely torn in half when it comes to this, on one side I think they should be allowed since they're suffering and shouldn't have to live through it. Then on the other hand it could cause all sorts of problems like the ones above. [editline]09:35PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Spacewolf;24645639]I have a friend whose grandmother is in her 90s, and she's really gone off the deep end. She's like a completely different person, she's violent, and never was like that before. At that age, you really can't enjoy things anymore, and I think it should be legal to speed up the process that's already happening.[/QUOTE] Unless she consents to it that's murder.
On a base level, I'd say legal. When you factor in room for abuse, angst-filled teens, solvable and temporary mental issues; all that jazz, it becomes a bit more controversial. I've known plenty of people who'd throw away their life if only someone had helped. Those same people are rather happy these days.
[QUOTE=MachiniOs;24636627]What would one define as assisted suicide?[/QUOTE] Well i play Modern Warfare 2 so that means I know everything. Assisted suicide is when you shoot someone and they jump off something high enough to kill them because you took all their health away. ^Woops, my inner troll got out of its cage. Assisted suicide is pretty much spending all your money on killing yourself the "Legit Way". You might aswell jump out of a plane with no parachute, since Gravity is the reason your gonna die. that's what I would do if I had nothing else to live for when I get to that age. I don't disagree with assisted suicide, but I bet no matter how old a person is they'd want to go out of this world with a bang.
Why not? Your body is YOUR body. Not the states.
[QUOTE=Silly Sil;24645104]Same as any addict.[/QUOTE] An alcoholic hitting the bottle again isn't likely to be as tormented by it as a pedophile going back to molesting children.
[QUOTE=Nick Nack;24648890]Why not? Your body is YOUR body. Not the states.[/QUOTE] Technically you have the right to kill yourself, how ever the state is under no obligation to help you.
Here's the thing. What he means is should it be legal for your doctor to give you a shot that kills you. Now my opinion. No. that wastes my fucking money. Suicide is illegal but that being said, i don't think the legal repercussions will greatly affect you. Jump off something. Its cheap and effective. Just land on your head.
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