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Assited suicide and Pulling the Plug.

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Can a mod move this to the war room please.

Do you find pulling the plug of life support on someone dying/suffering(vegetation) and doctor assisted suicide of a terminally ill person different morally?

Explain how you feel about both in as little or as much detail as you want.

I honestly don't see a difference and I feel assisted suicide should be legal in more states.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide

Assisted suicide is legal in the three American states of Oregon (via the Oregon Death with Dignity Act),[41] Washington (by Washington Death with Dignity Act), and Montana (through the 2009 trial court ruling Baxter v. Montana). There are relatively substantial barriers to the use of some of these provisions.
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I think it physician assisted suicide should be legal. It's about compassion and personal freedom.
 
If somebody wants to die, they should be able to find a willing physician to help them do so painlessly.
 
I thought the whole "Pulling the Plug" thing was an attempt to resurrect The Brotherhood.


And yeah, I think it should be legal. It happens whether it's legal or not. Transparency is a good thing.
 
eh. it's too fine of a line in my opinion.

pulling the plug is fine, but actually killing someone is one step too far.
 
MortalWombat said:
I thought the whole "Pulling the Plug" thing was an attempt to resurrect The Brotherhood.


And yeah, I think it should be legal. It happens whether it's legal or]
not. Transparency is a good thing.
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I'm just gonna let sleeping dogs lie.

In regards to why it got shut down people were posting things that offended others on sherdog so it got deleted.

Nostromo said:
No, I went through the thread, and based on some of the graphic posting contained in it, I think more than a few of the posters missed the idea, which was why it was deleted.
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Lost said:
Can a mod move this to the war room please.

Do you find pulling the plug of life support on someone dying/suffering(vegetation) and doctor assisted suicide of a terminally ill person different morally?

I honestly don't see a difference.
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On this point I would have to disagree. I don't think someone terminally ill with cancer should be equal to a veg.

Suffering is the key word. If they are spending day in day out in agony, then maybe assisted suicide is acceptable.

But something just irks me about legalising assisted suicide. If its completely legal, can someone who is having a particularly bad day just walk to his local physician and say "I can't take it anymore"?

Someone on their deathbed, who has nothing to give the world and who the world has nothing for in return, is probably elligible.

But something just doesn't feel right about it for me.

BTW my best mates Dad is terminally ill with a brain tumor right now. So this subject kinda hits home a little for me.
 
bmasters1993 said:
On this point I would have to disagree. I don't think someone terminally ill with cancer should be equal to a veg.

Suffering is the key word. If they are spending day in day out in agony, then maybe assisted suicide is acceptable.

But something just irks me about legalising assisted suicide. If its completely legal, can someone who is having a particularly bad day just walk to his local physician and say "I can't take it anymore"?

Someone on their deathbed, who has nothing to give the world and who the world has nothing for in return, is probably elligible.

But something just doesn't feel right about it for me.

I can understand what you mean, by what I bolded.

I'm sorry

BTW my best mates Dad is terminally ill with a brain tumor right now. So this subject kinda hits home a little for me.
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I can understand what you mean, by what I bolded.

I'm sorry about your friends dad I hope he doesn't suffer much longer.

I wasn't trying to say veg and suffering was the same thing, just was trying to simply the wording, sorry about that.
 
A doctor told me that, regardless of its illegality, many doctors will quicken death in the final, agonizing stages of cancer by giving the patient a lethal dose of morphine.

In any event, it should be legal in some cases, so long as the patient is competent to give his consent.
 
bmasters1993 said:
On this point I would have to disagree. I don't think someone terminally ill with cancer should be equal to a veg.

Suffering is the key word. If they are spending day in day out in agony, then maybe assisted suicide is acceptable.

But something just irks me about legalising assisted suicide. If its completely legal, can someone who is having a particularly bad day just walk to his local physician and say "I can't take it anymore"?

Someone on their deathbed, who has nothing to give the world and who the world has nothing for in return, is probably elligible.

But something just doesn't feel right about it for me.

BTW my best mates Dad is terminally ill with a brain tumor right now. So this subject kinda hits home a little for me.
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Sorry about your friend's dad.

I think it's an important point to realise that "assisted suicide" happens in oncology wards every day - based on stuff I've read and heard from doctors. Of course the legalisation would have lots of guidelines/regulations attached, and they wouldn't be simple to draft or enforce. However, it's stuff that's out there and is being applied. I think you're better off with it being open and administered rather than hush hush under the carpet.
 
tom sumter said:
A doctor told me that, regardless of its illegality, many doctors assist with suicide in the final, agonizing stages of cancer by giving the patient a lethal dose of morphine.
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Very interesting.

I don't know if I could live with myself if I did that, but then again I haven't seen the final agonizing stages of cancer, yet.
 
I wonder about this a lot. My father has multiple myeloma. When he gets to the point where he's in constant pain and always sick, he should have the choice to end it. He's going to die anyway, why make him live in pain for a few more days? I pray that he doesn't get to that point for a long time.
 
I have a hard time deciding.

On one hand if a person is being artificially kept alive for a long period of time and they have a livi g will that states they do not wish that then I say by all means, unplug.

On the other hand, when one believes he/she is suffering so much that they believe they need to end their life I think that it's up to that person to end it, not ask someone else to do it for them.

As I said I'm torn on the issue.
 
If the person really wants to die, why don't they just kill themselves? Never understood that.
 
LEWIS540 said:
If the person really wants to die, why don't they just kill themselves? Never understood that.
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If you kill yourself, wills go out the door completely and the family isn't eligible to inheritance from my understanding
 
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