What is your opinion on Euthanasia?
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If it's good enough for pets, it's good enough for me. It's my body. My Mind. My choice.
Hmm...
I think some people should be.:-) No, I think adults ought to be allowed to make decisions for themselves. Until you've walked a mile in somebody else's shoes you have no right to make their choices for them.
Nobody has the right to make a choice to die, because they are living for a reason which has to be completed. :D
This is a difficult question, given through illness, or accident some people are left in a vegetive state.
I am a believer in reincarnation, the theory of which is that our soul, being completely impartial will determine our next life so as to enable us to learn whatever we need to learn, in order that we can realize our true and full potential, be it a tree, a cat, or the future president!
So if this just might be true, what situation would we return to if we were to terminate our own life?
A scary thought
It is a scary thought and risky decision to make especially, when you learn the knowledge about astral and causal bodies, karmas getting carried over to another life etc. We increase karmic baggage in one way.
Hi DM you raise a question that I think about a lot. If I'm to be honest and someone close to me pained to a point they couldn't take any more thenI wouldn't hesitate to help them if this was their wish. It is they that should have the right to say when they want to go and not the right of others. I'm pretty sure if the pain wasn't so bad they wouldn't be asking to be helped on their merry way. We all experience pain at some time, and sometimes the pain can be unbearable, but we don't ask another to help us to die, so surely this tells us the patients pain is not unbearable, but that of an indescribable agony.
It gets deeply philosophical - in whose hand's the fate of life and death lies? We didn't take a decision to be born the day we walked out of the womb.
Are we talking about for our animal friends or for our human friends and relatives? For me, the issue regarding our animal friends is a little clearer ... but not much. We had to put down a cat some years ago (thankfully his sister seems to be quite healthy) because his kidneys had failed. On the one hand, who are we to decide when someone should die? On the other hand, how could we sit by and watch his suffering knowing that there was nothing we could do to make it better? Fortunately for us, it was clear that he didn't have much longer to live and it was a choice between ending his suffering earlier rather than later. Still, it was a very, very hard decision to make.
In many ways, I don't think it should be any different with humans. But of course, many will not see it that way. The reason that the decision to euthanize a human is less clear is that we have so many more treatment options for all sorts of illnesses. While we would never consider a kidney transplant for a cat, we would for a human. I think ultimately, it should be up to the individual human to decide whether or not they have the strength to continue living.
Well, humans and animals - both have a reason to live. It is more philosophical and metaphysical.
Dianne is dead on; if we can elicit merciful termination for suffering household pets, we as humans should also be allowed the same merciful handling towards removing needless suffering by similar Kevorkian methods.
To me Kevorkian was a hero.
How would you apply 'Law of Karma" in this? :-) You need to be perfect with THAT theory before you use euthanasia. :-)
Who on this earth is equipped for perfection? I would say nobody, despite ones individual religious beliefs.
Total Answers: 8, Total Page Views: 537.if the brain goes body will follow it is usually game over isn't it I hope not to go that way but I don't think I want the people who matter most to me suffer by having to watch me self destruct!
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