Accountable;880274 wrote: Nor would I allow anyone besides that person to impose a premature one.
(let's remember the context)
That is exactly the point I have been trying to make. The choice must lie with the patient and only with the patient. The action is a separate function from the choice and there are many cases where the patient will be unable to perform that action. In those cases (s)he will require assistance and that assistance best comes from a physician.
Physician-Assisted Suicides
Physician-Assisted Suicides
JAB;880280 wrote: I'm for not prolonging a life if it's been determined to be terminal and I'd want the individual to be as pain-free as possible. When my BIL died just over 2 years ago from oral cancer, this is the route my sister took.
I don't, however, think the death process should be speeded along with assistance by a physician.
There are times when "pain-free" and "with dignity" are not possible.
I don't, however, think the death process should be speeded along with assistance by a physician.
There are times when "pain-free" and "with dignity" are not possible.
Physician-Assisted Suicides
With all of the overwhelming "yays" for "physician assisted death", which I feel is a much more appropriate name rather than the neuroticisms the word "suicide" creates, then why is Physician-assisted death still not legal in most parts of the world?
Oregon has passed this law, while the state of Washington looks to be the next...Recently, New Hampshire, California, and Hawaii I believe has attempted to pass the law without success...
The "right to intensive pain and symptom management", "voluntarily stopping eating and drinking", "right to forgo life-sustaining therapy", and lastly, "sedation to unconsciousness" I find to be horribly unethical compared to a patients wishes to die.
Palliative care might be very well in some instances but not all...
And the fact is that most patients, at least in the United States, are not transitioned to Hospice at all!
Oregon has passed this law, while the state of Washington looks to be the next...Recently, New Hampshire, California, and Hawaii I believe has attempted to pass the law without success...
The "right to intensive pain and symptom management", "voluntarily stopping eating and drinking", "right to forgo life-sustaining therapy", and lastly, "sedation to unconsciousness" I find to be horribly unethical compared to a patients wishes to die.
Palliative care might be very well in some instances but not all...
And the fact is that most patients, at least in the United States, are not transitioned to Hospice at all!
Physician-Assisted Suicides
K.Snyder;1295539 wrote: With all of the overwhelming "yays" for "physician assisted death", which I feel is a much more appropriate name rather than the neuroticisms the word "suicide" creates, then why is Physician-assisted death still not legal in most parts of the world?
Oregon has passed this law, while the state of Washington looks to be the next...Recently, New Hampshire, California, and Hawaii I believe has attempted to pass the law without success...
The "right to intensive pain and symptom management", "voluntarily stopping eating and drinking", "right to forgo life-sustaining therapy", and lastly, "sedation to unconsciousness" I find to be horribly unethical compared to a patients wishes to die.
Palliative care might be very well in some instances but not all...
And the fact is that most patients, at least in the United States, are not transitioned to Hospice at all!
When the act of taking a person to a country where it is legal is considered to be manslaughter I cannot see that changing any time soon
Oregon has passed this law, while the state of Washington looks to be the next...Recently, New Hampshire, California, and Hawaii I believe has attempted to pass the law without success...
The "right to intensive pain and symptom management", "voluntarily stopping eating and drinking", "right to forgo life-sustaining therapy", and lastly, "sedation to unconsciousness" I find to be horribly unethical compared to a patients wishes to die.
Palliative care might be very well in some instances but not all...
And the fact is that most patients, at least in the United States, are not transitioned to Hospice at all!
When the act of taking a person to a country where it is legal is considered to be manslaughter I cannot see that changing any time soon
Physician-Assisted Suicides
Accountable;876799 wrote: Maybe because life was too sacred for a mere human to decide the time had come, and that sacred life was just as sacred while still in the womb. Nuts, I know, but just maybe.
Hypothetically speaking let's say life isn't sacred at all...Would you then keep a patient alive contrary to their wishes to die because they remain in pain that no medicine helps, both currently and in the near future if at all?
I ask this to all that feels Physician-assisted death/suicide is immoral because quite frankly I don't know when the last time Accountable has been on.
Hypothetically speaking let's say life isn't sacred at all...Would you then keep a patient alive contrary to their wishes to die because they remain in pain that no medicine helps, both currently and in the near future if at all?
I ask this to all that feels Physician-assisted death/suicide is immoral because quite frankly I don't know when the last time Accountable has been on.