Poll of the Day Euthanasia

[alyster]

 

[Rin]

Yay controversial poll week!

 

[Infinite Citadel]

Your polls are on point this week Alyster.  I voted yes, if people want to go out, they should be allowed to do so.

 

[Lord Bagel]

I support involuntary euthanasia 

 

[Lordship]

I don't think legality matters if you're at that point

 

[alyster]

I don't think legality matters if you're at that point

It matters if you need to carry it out

 

[Hooves]

I don't even know where I stand in this. But whatever yes

 

[RoboMonkey]

If I wanna die and I'm old and fading away, then let me freaking die

 

[Infinite Citadel]

I support involuntary euthanasia 

ITT Bagel is Hitler

 

[Doctor]

Euthanasia, sometimes called “mercy killing,” can be a difficult issue. On one hand, we do not want to take a person’s life into our own hands and end it prematurely. On the other hand, we do not want to prolong the process of dying more than necessary—that is, we want to preserve life, but not prolong death. At what point do we simply allow a person to die and take no further action to extend his or her life?

A related issue is that of assisted suicide. Essentially, a person seeking assisted suicide is seeking to euthanize himself, with the aid of another person to ensure that death is quick and painless. The person assisting the suicide facilitates death by making preparations and furnishing the needed equipment; but the person seeking death is the one who actually initiates the process. By taking a “hands-off” approach to the death itself, the facilitator seeks to avoid charges of murder. Proponents of assisted suicide try for a positive spin by using terms like “death with dignity.” But “death with dignity” is still death, “assisted suicide” is still suicide, and suicide is wrong.

We should all remember the words of former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who warned that the practice of medicine “cannot be both our healer and our killer”

Your polls are on point this week Alyster.  I voted yes, if people want to go out, they should be allowed to do so.

Are you saying If I want to jump off a bridge and end my life, because of depression I should be allowed to?

 

[Avicenna]

-snip-

I'm an assistant grader for one of my professors, so I'm always reading through people's papers with an eye out for plagiarism. Where'd you copy/paste this from?

 

[Azaghul]

For people with terminal illness, yes.

 

[Doctor]

I'm an assistant grader for one of my professors, so I'm always reading through people's papers with an eye out for plagiarism. Where'd you copy/paste this from?

Hahaha. I didn't know what to say so I ask google for help. 

 

[chris]

I do not believe that killing yourself should be legal unless you are terminally ill and in pain.

 

[Vitaris Liguritio]

I believe that there are few legitimate claims to why this shouldn't be legal, at least in circumstances in which an individual is terminally ill with a disease that is incurable and will result in their death inevitably within the next year.  Obviously depression is a different issue, however, how are you supposed to enforce a law that prohibits you from killing yourself? Their in no way in which you could punish those criminals, so making it illegal is almost invalid.  Yet, I do agree that if euthanasia were to be implemented, it would be put in place with strict regulations, and under very specific circumstances. Forcing people to live for no reason though doesn't make much sense, in my opinion.

 

[Konakaga]

If we lived in different times where the population isn't as over abundant as it is I'd probably be a bit opposed it besides terminally ill or those with great suffering or trauma.

But the world's population is plenty high, so if someone really wants it & has good reasons for it then it should be allowed under legal regulations.