Euthanasia: What Do you Think?

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A big part of Life is death. We are all going to die eventually. Some times people get sick which means that their life is of a very low quality, and more often than not they suffer a premature death. In these kind of situations, should they be allowed Euthanasia? Should they be able to make a desicion that they do not want to suffer ongoing pain and prolonged suffering? If you were terminally ill, would you want euthanasia? And at what point do you say a person is "Terminally ill enough" to qualify? At the point where they have all medication and help available? Many attemtpts to cure the illness but all failed? What about if people just find out they are terminally ill, should it even be considered that early on in the illness? Or what about if you have someone who is no longer mentally capable of making that desicion? Who should make the desicion to in effect, "Kill" that person? Family? A doctor? And what counts a terminally ill? Fair enough, the obvious when someone has Cancer or something. But what about just old age? That can still be pain and suffering. Your body slowely shutting down on you. If you had an elderly relative who was in considerable pain and was no longer "Mentally capable", would you consider euthanasia? Does that count as a Terminal illness, or is that something that is just inevitable? Finally, who make the desicion to grant the individual euthanasia? Surely each case would have to be looked at individually? Decided by a judge maybe? After a trial of sorts. But it is true that once you allow one person, everyone will want it. If you let one person who is pain die then surely another will turn up and say "Well you let this person, why not me?" ? We could go on forever allowing it to get more and more flexible! We are all "terminally ill" in effect, because eventually we are all going to die! I think that although i can see the many advantages, and i would hate to see my parents or any friend or family member suffer when they could so easily be free'd from i. I myself would probably want that ending for me should i end up in such a situation. But i think if we make it legal in certain situations we might aswell make it totally legal! And i think it would cause so many problems and in the end it would just be like making Murder legal! What do you think? Could you do it? And would you want it?