What you're describing is suicide, the ill/affected ending their own lives, euthanasia is the medical practitioner doing it for them. Everyone has the freedom to end their own life already. Also about the religious part of your reply, in most religions suicide is a sin so religious people who are in pain and want to die believe they can't do it themselves so they seek euthanasia as a work around.I believe that in a civilized society one should be able to choose what they want to do with their bodies.
Dignity goes hand in hand with freedom and society forcing people to continue living in suffering and pain, when all medical options are exhausted and when the person is in sound state of mind to make this choice, is a violation of personal freedom.
Most arguments against euthanasia are religion-based, which does not apply to me and I have zero interest in arguing about them. If somebody thinks that life was given to them by a superior being and only they can take it away, they can go ahead and not choose euthanasia. Nobody is forcing them. But they should not be the ones deciding for me.
In Belgium and in the Netherlands the law dictates:What you're describing is suicide, the ill/affected ending their own lives, euthanasia is the medical practitioner doing it for them. Everyone has the freedom to end their own life already. Also about the religious part of your reply, in most religions suicide is a sin so religious people who are in pain and want to die believe they can't do it themselves so they seek euthanasia as a work around.
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The real problem with euthanasia that supporters tend to overlook or turn a blind eye to is it's very hard, almost impossible to prove that is in fact what the patient wanted. Should we allow family members to make that call about non responsive patients? Just because you perceive their life as unbearable doesn't always men they do and just because you believe they're somewhere better doesn't mean they are.
Oh you're one of those people who hears the word religion and just stops listening regardless of what's said after, well I'm not going to entertain a back and forth so I'll just say this and be done.In Belgium and in the Netherlands the law dictates:
'Euthanasia is the act, undertaken by a third party, which intentionally ends the life of a person at his or her request, and can only be effected by a doctor, after medical and societal control. A doctor can only proceed when they know the patient well enough to be able to assess whether their request for euthanasia is voluntary and well-considered, whether the patient's medical situation is without prospect of improvement, and whether the individual's suffering is unbearable. '
This is what I am describing and I would like to remind you that not everyone has the capacity of committing suicide. Also this covers your thoughts about other people making this decision.
I do not care what religious people think about euthanasia and if it is a sin or not. Euthanasia should be optional.
How is anyone "robbing someone of a choice to prolong their life" though?Robbing one of the choice to prolong or end their life by law or cultural pressure is unethical.
By law..How is anyone "robbing someone of a choice to prolong their life" though?
Also if I think it will prolong my life to drink people's blood like a vampire is it unethical to stop me by laws or cultural pressure?
There is no law prohibiting people from prolonging their life, go reread the words you wrote. prolong means to extend.By law..
And aren't you comparing doing something harmfull to yourself to doing something harmfull to others?
Ah, you're right. That is confusing indeed. Should've left that out.There is no law prohibiting people from prolonging their life, go reread the words you wrote. prolong means to extend.
Yeah that bit was throwing meAh, you're right. That is confusing indeed. Should've left that out.