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Do we have a 'right to die'?
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 631801" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I think you're talking about two very different things here. I don't believe that someone has a "right to die" just because they don't believe that their life is worth living any more. Many young people go though some very trying times and will seek that "permanent solution" to a "temporary problem". Both of my children have attempted suicide in the past over relationships that ended badly - my daughter once, my son twice - and almost succeeded. They are now both happy functioning adults and the failed relationships are barely a blip on their radar, a distant bad memory.</p><p></p><p>But it's an entirely different thing if it's an adult with a terminal disease, someone in constant pain and suffering with no hope of getting any better. I believe these people should be allowed to make this decision for themselves. When my mother was diagnosed with very advanced terminal cancer, we were asked if we wanted measures taken when her condition worsened. Telling them "no" was the hardest thing I've every done but I know that it was the decision she would have made for herself if she were able to. Chemo, at that point would have possibly given her a few more months, time that she would have spent in pain in a hospital bed. Had she been given the option of ending her suffering sooner, I firmly believe she would have done it. My beloved great aunt was the most vital, alive person I've ever known. She ended up in a nursing home, dying very slowly and painfully of bone cancer, in constant agony, with her hands tied down so she couldn't pull out all the needles and tubes that were keeping her alive, all the while begging them to just let her die. To me it's absurd that you are considered heartless and cruel to let a beloved pet suffer in agony if there is no hope that they will get better but you are not allowed to extend this same kindness to a terminally ill human being who has made this decision for themselves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 631801, member: 1883"] I think you're talking about two very different things here. I don't believe that someone has a "right to die" just because they don't believe that their life is worth living any more. Many young people go though some very trying times and will seek that "permanent solution" to a "temporary problem". Both of my children have attempted suicide in the past over relationships that ended badly - my daughter once, my son twice - and almost succeeded. They are now both happy functioning adults and the failed relationships are barely a blip on their radar, a distant bad memory. But it's an entirely different thing if it's an adult with a terminal disease, someone in constant pain and suffering with no hope of getting any better. I believe these people should be allowed to make this decision for themselves. When my mother was diagnosed with very advanced terminal cancer, we were asked if we wanted measures taken when her condition worsened. Telling them "no" was the hardest thing I've every done but I know that it was the decision she would have made for herself if she were able to. Chemo, at that point would have possibly given her a few more months, time that she would have spent in pain in a hospital bed. Had she been given the option of ending her suffering sooner, I firmly believe she would have done it. My beloved great aunt was the most vital, alive person I've ever known. She ended up in a nursing home, dying very slowly and painfully of bone cancer, in constant agony, with her hands tied down so she couldn't pull out all the needles and tubes that were keeping her alive, all the while begging them to just let her die. To me it's absurd that you are considered heartless and cruel to let a beloved pet suffer in agony if there is no hope that they will get better but you are not allowed to extend this same kindness to a terminally ill human being who has made this decision for themselves. [/QUOTE]
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