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topic #1 to discuss
1.Adult assisted euthansia (ala Dr. Kevorkian) - for or against and why...
2. If your mom or dad wanted to go this way, would you be accepting/supporting, or not?
3. Should this ever be an option for terminally ill children who are suffering?
4. If it were to be legalized, what restrictions should be on it? Age minimum? Health issues? Waiting period?
Re: topic #1 to discuss
No to all of it. We are not to decide our own death. God will take us at the exact time we're supposed to go.
Euthanizing animals in our care? Fine. Euthanizing people? Never okay.
I personally dont like it - but I cant tell Betty Sue who is atheist and has terminal painful cancer that she shouldnt - I guess I just look at it as a less "messy" way of suicide.
Tough call.
And no, it shouldnt be allowed for kids.
I fully believe that as an adult, if you are suffering and have your faculties, you should be able to choose. Only you know if your life is worth continuing. That being said, I think it's a terribly slippery slope and I have no idea how it could possibly be legalized and regulated. IMO, it would depend on each individual situation which just makes it murky.
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Alissa Jean
9.10.2004
I watched a documentary on this. The person they were following had Parkinson?s and was slowly deteriorating. He knew that soon, he wouldn't be able to swallow, he wouldn't be able to control his bowels, he wouldn't be able to breathe on this own. He didn't want to "live" a life without any dignity. He wanted to leave his broken body while he could still make that decision himself, and before (in his words) he became an even bigger burden on his family both financially and in the terms of support.
When he said, "I don't want my bride of 54 years to have to clean sh!t off me because I can't control my bowels anymore. That's not fair to her, and it's not fair to me to have to live inside this body, embarrassed that I'm slowly wilting away and there isn't a damn thing I can do about it."
And I felt him on that.
He went to Switzerland (I think?) where as long as the person can administer the life-ending meds to themselves, it's legal. So...he ended his life with his family around him, and it was hard to watch...but at the same time I felt happy for him.
I don't know what I would do if my parents wanted to end their lives in such a manner. It would be hard, but I would have to understand. Legalizing...yeah, no idea how you'd go about that.