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Christians say "They must die in diginty" What is so good about a person suffering in pain everyday and not be euthanised because the government says it wrong. Anybody else feel like this?

when it comes to life support I'm glad I'm DNR. no fucking ventilators for me, I rather die. on another note, working in a hospital makes life depressing but fucking amazing when you save someone. [editline]23rd November 2010[/editline] I'm all for mercy killing and euthanasia.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;26240965]It's sad that Kevorkian still hasn't gotten his way of reasonable deaths. I want the plug to be pulled on me in a medically abhorrent situation. Don't let me live through agony that won't go away, or come back into a fractured or vegetative state. You better do the right thing and fucking kill me. It's more then degrading to be in that situation for me.[/QUOTE] I completely agree with you, the thought of becoming a vegetable has crossed my mind occasionally, If there is no way to fix it, then just push my wheelchair off a cliff into the spinning blades of a burning helicopter.

I'm all for euthanasia. If I was in that situation, I'd wanna die.

It's a sensitive subject with no right answer. But I think he did the right thing.

I think his intentions were honourable, but his methods were wrong, so I'm picking wrong. I can fully sympathize, and I really think that if he gets punished, it shouldn't be to the full extent of the law.

I believe people should have the right to die, but I voted 'Not sure/other' because with no witnesses or proof his wife wanted him to help her die you can't be sure of the circumstances. I'm not saying he murdered her, just that the family should have realised how bad it would look and found some way to prove the intentions. Also, I wouldn't recommend a gun for it.

He did a mans crime. He will face the consequences! Or how often do they let people free? I wonder if there will be a lawyer of some sort demanding justice for the man? Which is prison, although he may not be a danger for anyone, but still prove himself to be able to murder someone he loves, I guess the word murder don't fit very well, anyway. Justice is fascinating [editline]23rd November 2010[/editline] Voted not sure. I guess you could say it's a double barreled gun. :smug:

Euthanasia should be legal. I wouldn't have done what he did, but I would have gone for Euthanasia.

[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;26234936]Dementia, by definition, is a degradation of the ability to think rationally. I can see why you'd consider it a grey area since she seemingly didn't have a will, but it's a rather safe assumption that someone would want to die as soon as the main thing that people use to define humanity falls out of their grasp.[/QUOTE] So we should shoot people born heavily mentally impaired, too? What gives you the right to measure the suffering? And dementia might be painful to relatives, but actually, the patient himself can often be even happier with it than without it. They often forget worries and fears. They can still be happy. I can imagine that the decline hurt him, but she didn't mind. She possibly even couldn't. This of course differs from case to case, but we are talking about human life, not something that should be taken lightly. I am not saying that the guy should spend rest of life in jail, but what he did surely wasn't right.

[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;26237089]Actually, this is why we have judges. To interpret laws or set new precedents.[/QUOTE] Well technically this is why we have juries. Murder should always be illegal, but a Jury can circumvent the law by handing down "not-guilty" verdicts to obviously guilty suspects. This is by design.

For anyone that is interested in this kind of topic I suggest you watch this documentary. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQYTFIZi8A[/media] If a person wants to die, they should be allowed to legally. Killing a person with their consent should be fine, without consent it's obviously murder. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live knowing my health was deteriorating and I wouldn't be the same person in the next few months.

I see why he did it, but it wasn't his decision to make. The OP doesn't say whether she specifically said she wanted it.

[QUOTE=Gordy H.;26234087]I don't think I would be able to bear seeing someone I love unable to remember [b]to remember[/b] their own friends/family members. I don't condone his actions, but I understand why he did it.[/QUOTE] You said that already! Where's the shotgun..

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;26248018]So we should shoot people born heavily mentally impaired, too?[/quote] I never said that, but I think if parents know their child is going to be "heavily mentally impaired" before birth they should strongly consider an abortion. [QUOTE=Awesomecaek;26248018]What gives you the right to measure the suffering?[/quote] I didn't, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders did. [QUOTE=Awesomecaek;26248018]And dementia might be painful to relatives, but actually, the patient himself can often be even happier with it than without it.[/quote] A much larger jump than anything I've made in this thread thus far. [QUOTE=Awesomecaek;26248018]They often forget worries and fears. They can still be happy. I can imagine that the decline hurt him, but she didn't mind. She possibly even couldn't. This of course differs from case to case, but we are talking about human life, not something that should be taken lightly.[/quote] The DSM disagrees with you about the symptoms of dementia. It's you against thousands of doctors here, guess who I'll be siding with. I am not saying that the guy should spend rest of life in jail, but what he did surely wasn't right.[/QUOTE]

Unless she consented to this, yes this was the wrong thing to do. Plus I guess he could also be gotten on gun possession as well.

[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;26252758]I never said that, but I think if parents know their child is going to be "heavily mentally impaired" before birth they should strongly consider an abortion. [/QUOTE] But what when it's already born? It's apparently suffering. Do you think it's right to kill it, because it doesn't apply for our standards of happy life?

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;26255675]But what when it's already born? It's apparently suffering. Do you think it's right to kill it, because it doesn't apply for our standards of happy life?[/QUOTE] Babies are an unfortunate situation here, since they don't have a personality yet and their families aren't able to decide what they believe they would want. And since they were born like that, they wouldn't know the difference anyway. Because of these things, I think the situations are different enough that I can say "no they shouldn't be killed" without demonstrating any hypocrisy.

I think it was the right thing to do. I feel sorry for the husband, though. Being together for that long and taking care of her like that, he must have beat himself up mentally over whether or not her should do it.