I think that being depressed isn't a reason to use this service and should only be used under strict circumstances.

i think that it is your right to die and no one can choose it for you.

Why is everybody so against euthanasia? I would honestly hate to see somebody close to me live a terrible life, when they had the option to end it all while still having the memories from where their lives were bearable and healthy.

Although I think the death sentence is very hypocritical, I think if people chose to die, it should be respected and accepted.

i think eauthanasia should not exist.

I'm writing a report about euthanasia for Australian Studies and as most of you probably know, euthanasia is not legal in Australia. Amen to that is what I say. Yes, someone may be in great pain and may be suffering more than imaginable. But what we're all forgetting, is the fact that every single day, people are dying in third world countries and in wars and homicides, every single day. These people do not have a "peaceful death" and they don't even ask for one. So now, all of us rich countries want to have the luxury of having the option to choose when and how we die? That is absolutely inhumane. What's next? This world just gets crazier and crazier each and every day, and people who want it all such as people who are for euthanasia, are the ones that are turning this world into living hell. We don't choose when we come so why should we choose when we go? Just think about it.

I can believe it! euthanasia is wrong. There is no way to say it other than it's wrong! The only person who can decide about our living or not is God! Are you following me? I am Christian too and I know that there are people who suffer illness that have no cure, but if you think about it, there is a purpose for them that God prepared. So we don't have any rights to decide if someone lives or not. Just my dear God. That's my opinion and I'm sorry for my english. I`m bolivian and still learning.

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is not up to a doctor to choose whether to end a life or not. It is the decision of the patient who is wishing for what is often the case an end to a life of pain, misery and despair. If an animal can have its suffering ended why not a human? Humans are no better than animals and they are not inferior. There are many types of euthanasia. Every one is different, every case is different. Why disallow such aid?

Have you ever experienced a terminal sickness, where you are just in so much excruciating pain that you cant bare to handle? You cannot even begin to debate the fact that euthanasia is wrong, you have never been in the situation you don’t no what its like, so don't even try to debate the fact that "thou shalt not kill." What do you think the doctors are doing to the sick patients? they are giving them little doses of drugs every day to try and stop the pain, but in the end they end up dying. No, not they way god intended, but by the drugs the doctors supply the patients, either way they are still being killed, just slowly. Even though the doctors are trying to help them, don’t get me wrong, but if they are sick of dragging out their death bed, i don’t see what's wrong with it. It should be up to the person. So if you have not experienced it, don’t even try to debate it. You have nothing to debate. And like someone said on here before about their grandfather being really sick but he just kept on living not wanting to die, just putting up with the pain. Than good on him, he's a strong man but not all people are strong like that. he decided to keep breathing, that was his choice, and he could bear it. But some other terminally sick patients out there cannot and it's their decision on what they want to do.

Animals are part of god's creation too. They're alive and breathing. how dare you say it's wrong to kill a sick person who is experiencing pain, when it's perfectly fine to kill animals, just because they have no home, they're not in pain, they're healthy. it's not their fault they have no home. Where's the justice in that? Here we have someone wanting to die, it's their will, where just because an animal has no home, they are killed, not because they want to die, but just because we can. how does that even begin to make sense? Explain that.

Why would god want us to suffer? Suffering is not an experience for these terminally ill patients. when ever has being in so much unbearable pain been an experience? What exactly could you learn from it? Absolutely nothing! What’s there to learn? how are the terminally ill people experiencing life? what exactly could they be experiencing or missing out on life? Watching the world just slowly pass them by? Watch their family mourn for however many years it takes for the drugs to slowly kill them? They don’t want to leave their families. no one wants to die, but if someone just can't bear the pain and they can deal with having to leave their life and families around them, then isn’t that saying something? Who wants to leave this world and leave everything behind? No one. It just goes to show that us outsiders who don’t experience the pain, really don’t understand what they’re going through, not until we are lying there in there in excruciating pain.

Why does it matter to you people who think it's wrong if someone wants to die? You don’t know the person, you don’t have to grieve at their loss, you don’t know what they're dealing with. So how can you start to judge the person and tell them what is right and what is wrong just because they don’t want to deal with the pain anymore, because they are sick of having to deal with it. Them not you. It has nothing to do with us, why should we have a say? Think about it. --L.E.F

I am Catholic Christian, (but that really doesn't matter does it?) So anything I say from now on refering to euthanasia will be biased, right? Well the same thing can be said about atheists giving their opinion on euthanasia, so they are also biased? Well let's take the old antagonism between god's existence or non-existence out of the discussion and talk from a plain experiential manner. Rational and moral arguments are necessary, but our decisions are primarly based on convincing experiences and their ability to convince us in our feelings, thoughts and actions, and I want to use my own experience to tell you why I beleive euthanasia is wrong. As many have mentioned, I too had a relative, my grandfather, who suffered for two years with an intestinal cancer that metastisized. I also witnessed how he suffered with the disease and with the various chemo and radiotherapy treatments. I was subject to his changing moods, I saw him bleed, I saw how his vivacious and magnetic look withered away slowly. It was a real painful year. In the end, he died a terrible death. He had multiple organ failure. Luckily he died at home which is what he wanted. I appologize for the crude details, but I do so because that was what really happened, and our whole family witnessed it. What did granddad say about his own suffering: "sometimes life is a b." He wasn't much of a believer himself, and he was a loving, teasing, wonderful grandfather. He could be quite authorative and punishing, but he was also sweet as maple syrup on warm and nutritious pancakes. He was one of the first persons who helped me understand that I was loved above all things, and no matter what I would do, he would always love me, and to the very end he said he wanted to see me graduate from high school (I was 12 years old then). Was it fair that he should have died in such a painful way? Actually six years before this round of cancer, he had previously had a first outbreak of colonic cancer, which was detected early, treated and cured. He won that battle, but in the war for life, cancer won the second battle. I have always asked myself after his death, why did he continue with chemo and radio therapy until the end, when he could have decided to refuse it? Why was he willing to go through all that pain, for so long? What made sense to him? Life. He was an uneducated, ex-alcoholic, CN rail union general secretary, husband, father of six, grandfather of 13, had a love for life, his family, his house in the woods, for his dogs Tricker and Dusty, a good friend, and a profoundly tolerant and supporting friend. He experienced a lot of human weakness, but he "sucked the honey out of pain and wrongdoing", and he used that to live, and to give himself in every look, word, kiss, walk, joke or punishment that he could offer. Every last bit of his breath meant an opportunity to express his love, in his own personal way, but in the end it was love. You could feel it in his tone, in his look, in his words, even when he frighteningly mad, and he wanted to have every last moment to express that love. Death is the limit of all limits, and I am grateful for that because it keeps me focused on the present, and to give myself to others in abundance, in spite of my weaknesses and wrondoings. It's such a wonderful thing to make my wife smile in the morning. I am grateful for breathing, for being able to listen to people's voices, to see their colorful and illuminated presence, for smelling nature, hearing birds, feeling the wind tickle my hair. All this my grandfather knew about, and all the above I said to say euthanasia is not an option for death, it's an option for avoiding life, avoiding the possibility for learning and loving, in spite of pain, yes danm it, in spite of pain. I agree pain is not a good thing to feel, not even a miligram of it, but we feel it anyway, and we can learn from it too, but pain isn't forever, it's temporary, and death isn't the end. Life is the end, as it always has been.

Euthanasia shouldn't be legal. I bet you that plenty of ill people would just kill themselves because they had that option. It's too risky because their families would blame the doctors for their death and too many people would be killing themselves (not going to heaven). Although, there are some that don't believe in God or have any religion.

Actually euthanasia is legal in both Oregon and Washington.

why should people suffer? they shouldnt, if they can talk and decide for themselves that they want to be out of the suffering and pain let them. its not right on them who have to sit by day by seeing someone they care about in pain and suffering, but them and people around them to peace, at least the family and friends dont have to live with the guilt that they could have done something else to help them? maybe it is their last wish, but atleast you helped them.

if the patient is very unconscious,cant talk or even open his eyes,isn't the same as being dead??

how can they choose or decide whether they want to live or not if they cant even speak??yes,there's the family members to decide, but is it enough??

Well, guess people have not learned the circle of life and more importantly *the truth.* First and foremost, there is no such thing as having the right to decide your own or another person's death. You may claim to have a choice, but then make that choice your own to do to yourself because then you face the responsibilities of *your own* actions.

Because a person goes through pain, they learn to look after and love that person knowing that value and the pains they went through in bringing forth life. And when that person becomes senile or meets misfortune, ending their misery, yeah so you claim, or am I sensing it's more your own misery your trying to eradicate rather than putting up with them and loving them back. Take a chance at reading what follows.

All things happen in life to test how much patience you have in returning what you receive from others. When you are born you know you are born to die, but does that stop you from wanting to do great things? No. A handicapped person sometimes does much more great things than a normal person can, shall we give a shot of euthanasia to the person who is born perfectly normal yet didn't do anything great in life?! How then do you get the right to decide who should live or die. A person dies none the less, but *lives on* in our memories by what they were in their life, regardless of if they were a pain to you or not, because anything you do gets its own share of blessings. You will be remembered much more if you stood by them despite all that rather than deserting them when it was their turn to bear the grunt of life.

A Mother Teresa will be remembered much more than a Dr. Kevorkian any day because one meant good by being humble and more importantly humane, while the latter forgot being humane, but instead thought of playing God! The minute you think you are God that's the moment you've lost the meaning of *life* itself and all its values. And if you think the person who is writing this must not have tasted pain, there too you stand corrected. I unlike others wait for God to decide when *He* needs me, not push myself to death because I feel unwanted in this world or seem to be in so much physical or mental pain. I do not see what others have that I do not, but rather see what I have that others do not, and live on One Day at a Time thanking God none the less. Life never seems fair, it never will, but then how else will you ever go through the mystery of *life*?

I think euthanasia should be legalized if the person choosing to die understands what they are doing.

I do not think however that depression is a good enough reason to die. I know a few people who are depressed and they have their good days and their bad just like anyone else. I am a christian but we should not mix church and state and by making a law not to allow euthanasia. What if someone does not believe in god and chooses to be euthanized? How can anyone put them down? I am a firm believer in the idea that everyone has their opinion and that will never change. This world is full of different people with different opinions. Who are you to say one opinion is not as good as the next? Who is anyone to chose the fate of another?

i think that if you wish to end your life then you should be able to. if you think about a member of your family, your best friend, your partner, your child, and you can see the pain and suffering that they are going through, why would you want to watch them go in such a way?

would you want those memories of them?

or would you prefer to end their life, with their consent, and remember the good times you had together. yes, it would be really sad to see the ones you love, go. but at the end of the day, it's not about you, it's about them and their quality of life.

I agree that euthanasia should be legal although i'm not sure if i'd choose it for myself, (then again i've never gone through as much pain as some people have to) however i'd want the right to choose but...

How is a person suppose to agree/disagree to euthanasia if they are terminally ill? What if they are brain dead, have Alzheimer's or depression. A person with a serious illness like these is often not capable of making huge decisions like going through with euthanasia! If this is the case then who is going to make the decision for them? Friends, family members, doctors? Then isn't that leaving it up to other people who should live or die???

I wouldn't want to see anybody suffer, but I don't think i could ever consent to euthanasia for myself or another person as I still see it as ending an innocent life.

btw, i'm 17 and researching euthanasia for English.

For me, i'm not in favor of euthanasia because that is a mercy killing and you are not responsible for making the life of people become short, but it depends on the people who don't like to see their loved ones suffering from pain.

i need help on euthanasia. ppl plz help me. i understand what it is, but i am stuck on my vocabulary i don't know how to write it and it's my project at school. ppl plz help me :(

putting any living thing down is so *wrong*!!! it should not be allowed and that's why i want to sue the government for putting down an animal if it doesn't have a home.

if u think that putting down *anything* that lives rather than go to a pet store or a humane society and adopt an animal its saving there life and helping to show people that putting down an animal is *really wrong*!!

i know of a couple of people that have put there animal in the humane society and they went back to bye it again because there plans changed and they weren't going to move. they went back 1 year later and they said that they put it to sleep because they couldn't find it a home.

Look, I know that you all say that it's right, that it's fair, that it stops the suffering. But it doesn't. People have so much to live for, and we've only got one life to live. I know that sometimes pain comes to the extreme, but pain is a part of life. Did you know that in some countries it's legal to euthanize a newborn with a disability? They had so much to live for, so much to accomplish, things to see, places to go, people to love. But they didn't get it because their parents didn't want to deal with them.

Sometimes the person being euthanized doesn't get a say. If they go to court and are determined mentally unstable, then they are killed. Even if death isn't something they want.

And just because there are no cures for certain sicknesses, does it mean that there will never be? Someone sick could one day become famous. A baby with a disability could one day have a family that they love, and who loves them back.

It's wrong.

I'm eleven years old. That was my opinion on euthanasia.

Doesn't taking the life away remove all opportunity or options from the patient, meaning the situation could improve? Maybe it won't, maybe it will, but I don't believe Euthanasia is the correct option in cases like that. Ultimately, I suppose it's up to the patient, but knowing me, I would never undergo that choice no matter how much pain.

Life is opportunity and experiences, taking it away removes all possibility of the situation improving, even if it's unlikely. Religion doesn't have much to do with it, but it may have some influences on the choices we all make.

Okay, I am thirteen & doing a project on Euthanasia.

I honestly think that if someone is suffering in the hospital that much, then they should be able to die if that is what they choose. No one should have to suffer horrible pain, as most of them do. In all honesty; There's nothing wrong with it here.

& Yes, I am I christian..but..what does God have to do w/ it? nothing. Maybe we should think about that.

Thanks.

I personally am against any kind of acts where people tell other people what is wrong and right. I hate when someone chooses to do something, and then other people think its their job to tell them that their wrong. Did you decide what was wrong and right? People need to stop trying to tell other people how to live. People make others believe that they're wrong, or their weird, or something's not right with them, and it needs to stop because that's no way to live. People are missing out on their own life because their too busy worried about others and dictating others.

In conclusion, I think you should be able to choose weather you want to live or not. ESPECIALLY if the persons brain is already gone and their just sitting their on life support. It's life is already gone, the blood is just still pumping. You'd rather have someone be a vegetable and just sit their? Also, most of the people who are against Euthanasia, haven't gone through a personal experience watching someone deteriorate. Don't say that you wouldn't take them out of their misery, because you wouldn't know until you've been approached with the situation.

me and my friend are studying euthanasia in R.e.

We are for euthanasia. but we think it should only be performed on terminally ill people. not people who are depressed! People should have the right to die when they want! no one should get arrested for giving birth! (you have a right to come into the world, so you must have a right to leave!!)

JADE again, Yes, that does sound like a terrible way to live. 38 is so young too..and by the age of 14, i had watched my granddad deteriorate for a whole year, i used to go round to their place at 1 in the morning when he had fallen and my grandmother couldn't pick him up again so my mum had to. i had been to my other grandads funeral, my nanas, and my aunts. so believe me, i know how you feel. wish her all the best.

My mum is in a lot of pain with a condition that has no cure. If you think this is a decent way to live, 38yrs old, in a wheelchair, going down the aisle in crutches, never able to have an ordinary life as everywhere you go people are ignoring you and talking to the person pushing the wheelchair, then you are unbelievable. This is a horrible way to live your life and I know what its like as my mother has to go through this. I am fourteen years pld. and have seen more than anyone else my age!!

Until i read all those comments i didn't believe with Euthanasia, but know that i've read them, i have to agree. But i hate to think it would be abused.

Hi, I feel that euthanasia should be up to the person whom is suffering. I'm not saying that it is ok if a person is depressed and does not want to live should be euthanized because they want to die, if they truly are suffering and there is no cure for what ails them then so be it. If it was me I would not want my family to see me with uncontrollable bowels or someone telling me ok you can swallow now because they can not remember how to.

For the idiots out there, who think that by someone choosing euthanasia, they have done something wrong, can I just say, mind your own business!!!

People like you go around telling others that this is wrong, but what does it have to do with you, if any of you have kids, how would you feel if other people were telling you how to look after them? I know I would hate it, because my kids well being is up to me.

This is the same sort of thing, because it is up to the patient whether they want to die, not some silly person, who doesn't know them, or care about them in the slightest, and only think about themselves.

Well stop being so selfish, you aren't making anyones lives better, if anything you're making them worse!

Please people, euthanasia is not a good thing but on the other side its a good thing. But people you cant afford to lose someone you love.

why cant people just accept if they're in great pain why not just let them die painlessly?

Hold up! to the kid below this..

"They deserve it anyway"? Excuse Me?

anon21269 the almighty god gave us free will so if someone wants to die let them they deserve it anyway.

i am also doing a report for school about euthanasia and i think it should be legal for some cases if it really is that much pain but not truly legal.

The almighty God gives us life and according to our spiritual believes we art allowed to take away our lives bt when a person is in severe pain and suffering ought to be ended his/her life i think the will should be granted because who knows what hell a patient is going through and knowingly there nt chances to survive and is gona die sooner or later so why let a patient suffer???????

i think euthanasia is a good thing because it lets people who are in serious pain to end there live a be put out of there misery like they do yo animals when they are ill and they cant do anything they put the animal down

I'm writing an essay for school on euthanasia.

Before I read this article and everyones comments, my thoughts on euthanasia were that it was wrong. After I read everyones comments, I thought about it and now I think that it should be legal to a certain extent. Like it should be legal for someone to say, "I want to die, please put me out of my misery." But, I'm not quite sure it is. For what I've read it is illegal in the US. Only in Oregan, you can have a "physician assisted death."

I think that people consider it as murder or suicide, depending on how you look at it, when its really not. I know that if I was deteriorating in a hospital, knowing I was going to die, why not just get it over with?? It makes sense. I would KNOW that I was going to die, so why just sit in the hospital and wait to die?? That has to be hell for people to go through. I would hate it.

i am a young female doing a school project and i would just like to say that i think it is right to an extent. if the person is not mentally stable they should not be able to make that decision.

thanks

those who are Disagreeing with euthanasia, because they think that the persons family has ulterior motives should look up the rules of euthanasia on the internet. They are available for anyone who wants to see them. i think you will find that any rights to the will for them go.

Where on earth do I start. I stumbled upon this while writing an oral for school. Im 17 at the moment, but by the age of 16 I had been to 6 funerals and known 8 people to die.

Some of you people have absolutely NO idea!

I watched my granddad slowly and painfully deteriorate over a year. he was given a year to live. You wanna know what he did in that year? NOTHING!. There was absolutely nothing he could do but sit in his chair up until the last 2 weeks when he was taken to palliative care. He couldnt even walk up the hallway to his bed, he was pushed or had assistance to walk.

He refused chemo, I'm proud of him. Thats the closest form of 'putting out of misery' that is legal. why at 79 would be want a painful cure that may not even work?

I am not a christian, I'm pretty much an atheist.

But even if there was a God, You think he put you on Earth to want you suffer in pain? You think he's some kind of Sadist? FOOLS!

And one last thing..Animals are God's creations too! (this is directed specifically at that christian idiot who claims animals are less than humans) What's the difference between them and us? You'll just make your god made putting his creations down like that.

Euthanasia should be legal, if the patient, not the family or doctor, want it. Why would you wanna be in pain and live out a painful nightmare called life?

We had no say of how and when to come into this world.. we should at least have a say how and when we leave it..

i'm a student doing research about euthanasia..

my opinions is euthanasia should be legal... others say its cruel but what would you choose? put yourself in the situation that you are suffering in so much pain.. that you cannot carry your bladder and bowel.. If the patient want to rest in peace, then why not?.. for me, its more painful to see a patient who is suffering in so much pain rather than looking at a person who is resting in peace.. at least, when the patient is resting in peace, we all know that he is not suffering... but that is only my opinion..

hello i am currently writing an essay about euthanasia and i would simply like to put forward my opinion. i am a christian and all my family believe that euthanasia is wrong however this was before we all had to watch my grandmother waste away in hospital. she had a tumor in her brain which they tried to remove but after the operation she went brain dead. she doesnt need a respirator and it is unlikely that she will every wake up. all of my family members have been made to suffer because her condition has dragged on for so many years i think it would have more merciful if the doctors had put her to sleep because then my family could finally mourn her and move on with their lives but euthanasia is illegal. even though euthanasia goes against my morals as a christian "thou shall not kill" i think that you can only make your choice if you have been in my situation or one like it.

as a majority of other people who have written on this blog i have not personally dealt with this sort of situation. but i believe that for those who believe in god should stick to their ideas and opinions. try to imagine if you were a terminally ill patient and were suffering to the same extent, are you still sure you would want to continue enduring the pain? or would you eventually snap and ask to be euthanized. think of the situation as though you were experiencing it and then have your say. i know what i would say.

whoever said that it is our right to choose whether we die or not is sad and disappointing. watching people die before you is an awful experience, i know that. We choose to live our lives however we want to and you can choose to give life and to live life, but you cannot by any means take away a life. God did not put us on this earth just so we can give up. he hasnt given up on us, so why should we give up on him. we all have been through hell and back in many ways or form, but at the end of the day, its about having faith and resilience. Faith in God and knowing that no matter the suffering we may endure or our loved ones may have endured its about being able to get back up, to have faith and resilience. We should not give up easily instead we need to fight, to fight for what is right ethically and also for God. He deserves so much more. Believe in him, know that he is there and he will carry you through anything and everything. just believe. i know its hard but thats the beauty of it, you will learn to be a bigger, braver, stronger and independent person. God deserves more than we give him credit for.

I was opposed to medical euthanasia until I watched my mother die from cancer. She was given just enough morphine so that it would not kill her but the pain was still excruciating. Her last words were "Help me". I would much rather be euthanized and die with dignity and less painfully. I think it should be up to the individual to choose.

Euthanasia should be legal because of what people have to go through because they are terminally ill. they should be able to have peace.

I think people have the right to choose when they die, its their life not ours!

nah if someone is in pain and is going to die anyway then they should have the right to die. People shouldn't be forced to live.

Euthanasia is the practice of painlessly killing a person so as to end the pain and suffering of a disease or other malady. This process sounds compassionate, but I believe it is a very dumb idea. The doctors who have worked their way to save the lives of people would be forced to destroy their purpose by injecting death into their patients.

I just hate the idea of killing people when that should come when God wills it, but I also think that if we were to allow euthanasia there would be less motivation to finding cures. We should not accept the easy way out. Death can be prevented but life should not be.

the person who said that people commit euthanasia because they cant control there bowels or badder needs to be realistic. People shouldnt have the right to commit murder or suicide because their bowels are out of control research the topic before you post a comment please.

Does anyone want another person's death on there hands? God has created us and he has made the rules. You can not control your life or the people around you. Yes I am a Christian and I don't live the way I am supposed to, but Euthanasia is murder. Their are a lot of people with greedy motives in this world and life is not easy. Taking the easy way out is not always a good one. Don't try and play God, he is a jealous God.

Euthanasia is not decided by doctors or anyone else. It is a decision made by the patient...the dying patient. Imagine lying in a hospital bed is so much pain it's unbearable, imagine not being able to control your bowels or bladder? Can you really sit there and say that you wouldn't mind living this way? Would you want your children seeing you this way? Not me...Im all for euthanasia! It's my life I want to decide!!!

IM not trying to sound rude or anything... but the fact of the matter is this only happens to people who want it to happen. The only people disagreeing are people who probably haven't even seen what horrible pain people go through in some sicknesses my aunt had cancer and wasn't very old and wasn't very far along in all of the treatments and she was in so much pain she finally out right told the doctor to kill her but seeing as it was not allowed in the U.S. she died a very slow, painful death and I watched for months. so I don't think it's the doctors choice or gods choice or the governments choice to say that its wrong. its ours the patients choice and if your very religious and want to painfully die then fine but you cant say thats wrong for some one else and their life. its our life and whether you live it according to the bible and 10 commandments or if you live to your own standards then thats how you will live it. I don't think if god saw you die a slow painful death that he would be happy i think you are just scared that if you give the order to let them kill you that god wont love you well your probably very wrong. thats all.

Hello,

I was just typing to say that I feel that euthanasia is very wrong. How could anyone feel that they have a say when someone should die. God never said there would be no pain on earth, he never said dying would be peaceful, he never said we would be able to choose. he even says in Genesis, that we shall live a life of toil and pain! My mom was taken from this world suddenly, and I am glad she did not suffer, but I know for a fact, that if we knew she were dying, we would never have allowed that to be done to her! That is murder!

euthanasia was practiced and advocated in nazi germany. the nazi thinking was that anybody dying should be killed, anybody with a birth defect should be killed, handicapped should be killed, etc. Not to mention people they felt were inferior to them(jews, gypsys, blacks, catholics ) should all also be exterminated. Euthanasia for humans is wrong and impractical, unethical on many levels. Some family members have greedy motives (they want the money and they want it now). or, they dont want whats left of the money to be spent on further care, treatment etc. the possible scenarios are many and varied. hospice is an alternative to continued treatment of someone terminally ill who cant benefit from medicines or surgery any more, or just doesnt want it any more. hospice is when the person no longer gets any medication except for pain, no breathing assistance, no forced feeding or IV's except for pain. I have seen this in action, it was natural and the best way to go for my brother.

hi, i dont really know much about euthanasia or assisted death from personal experience but i do feel that a human person has the right to choose whether they live or die and they are in a decent state of sanity then they must be given the opportunity as a human right. anonymous entrant age 14

euthanasia is illegal in the majority of countries in the world for a reason people who believe in euthanasia believe in the right to say who dies when they die and how. Why do we as humans all of a sudden have that right to kill. It is a form of murder or suicide except it has a different name. I know some people dont want to live in pain but euthanasia is defined as the intentional killing of a person with a terminal illness meaning their illness is going to kill them anyway so why not allow them to die in peace and live the rest of there remaining time with their loved ones.

Euthanasia is illegal and so it should remain that way people are quite ignorant if they think they can play God with other peoples lives.

I'm sorry but I have to disagree with the young woman doing the project. I don't think you should give an lethal injection to help them die its just down right out cruel. It's different if the patient has it documented somewhere or told the doctors orally what they wanted. To just help end their life is not right. The bible says in Exodus 20 thy shall not kill. They have broken one of the ten commandments. We all must get account for our sins if you don't believe it this read it for yourself. Give the patient prescribed pain medication until it is time for them to leave this world in peace. How would people feel if someone did their love one like that.

Hi there,

I am a young girl working on a school project for euthanasia.

I would just like to say that i think it is right. For someone to get to a point in life where they are in so much pain they no longer want to live no more...To want the suffering and pain to be over, Euthanasia is the right way to go about it.

should that thing be illegal or not?

my grandma was very healthy until she was treated for high cholesterol. the medication she was taking turned out to result in a very rare side effect (that they didn't know yet with that medication), so the doctors gave her immunosuppressing medications to treat what they thought she had. so a little cold evolved into pneumonia. when they suggested that she go on a breathing tube, she balked at it. so she got worse and worse. my mom convinced her to try the breathing tube in an effort to help her recover. instead, other family members told the doctor that they didn't want her to go on the tube and they gave her a sedative that put her to sleep and then removed her oxygen line. she did not have a do not resuscitate order in effect, she was just a little scared at getting a breathing tube. i watched her slowly die in front of me, powerless to do anything because we were outvoted by the rest of the family. they did not discuss it with her, although she was conscious. they did not explain to her that she was going to die. i feel very strongly that she was "put to sleep" by the doctors. we were in a hospital in a retirement community where i think older people go to die, and the doctors treated her case as such. was this euthanasia? i don't know. i feel like this was pretty close to it. i'm sure stuff like this goes on everyday across the country, but because it's not blatant euthanasia, people don't say anything or simply don't care. i'm curious as to how specific the law is, or is it so general that it leaves a lot of wiggle room?

Why would doctors do this if they know Euthanasia is illegal in the United States?????

Live with dignity die with dignity it's my choice if i wish to live or die. yes i'm a religious christian but look around you the world is overpopulated. all you hypocrites just want people to live and suffer.

Humans mean so much more than animals!!!!... I don't know what you mean by "humans are no better than animals"? humans were made "in the image of god" so yes!! humans ARE better than animals is so may ways, he made humans A LITTLE less than angels, and yes!! humans ARE inferior!! and i don't think is within our decision to live or die.... in the bible, the psalmist david said that "My times are in thy hand" therefore self-destruction is NOT god's plan for humanity regardless of one's state of health!!

It is not up to a DOCTOR to choose whether to end a life or not. It is the decision of the patient who is wishing for what is often the case an end to a "life " of pain, misery and despair. If an animal can have its suffering ended why not a human? Humans are no better than animals and they are not inferior. There are many types of euthanasia. Every one is different, every case is different. Defined by a dictionary EUTHANASIA:an easy mode of death:the act or practice of putting painlessly to death, in cases of incurable suffering. Why disallow such a relieving procedure?

Doctors today are not bound by "I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel". Doctors now swear a new version of the Hippocratic Oath that states, "...it may also be within my power to take a life;..." This new version was written in 1964 and is more modern than the one written in 400 BC. Also, doctors are not required to take the oath, though most do.

How come Oregon is the only state that believes in Euthanasia?

Are any other states projected to vote for it in the future?