Mercy Killing....Is It Good ????

It has benefits. For the family and for the patient. If I were the patient for sure I just want to die, than living in a supporting life machine and in vegetative state. Hard for the patient and for the family. Also when a person in a coma, they are not capable of making decision for their own life, so then the relatives and family will be the one to do it for them. Unfair, but..... Thats it :P

Hi! I don't support mercy killing or euthanasia. Only God has the exclusive right to human life. If doctors can prolong the life of one person using any gadget or medical equipment, then by all means, do it. We really cannot tell the future whether the comatose person may miraculously come back to normal life or not. But unplugging the life support system or anything of that sort is like taking away the life of the person.

if you are rich, you have the capacity to provide for all the medical expenses to get the best medical support and practice for your patient, then you can say "no, i will wait for my love one to wake up even if it takes forever. I can pay!" then the medical practitioners will take care of your patient. If you are poor and it is hard for you to pay for even a 3-day stay in the hospital, what are your options? would you compromise your whole family's future for the 0.01% chance survival of one member?

well first off doctors don't kill their patients if they are only in coma... second they would only give you that option if the patient has no chance... meaning if his or her life is only prolong by the use of those medical equipment like respirators and so on... meaning if you take out that medical equipment the patient will still die... so in medical point of view we are not playing god (i mean them) but they are just doing the inevitable which is give the patient its eternal peace. everyone deserves peace right?

Mercy killing is difficult to categorize. Yes, as religious people, it is wrong to take the life of someone who is in pain or in a coma in God's doctrines. Then, if we kill someone who is suffering, we are making things easier and putting them out of their misery. The person who has the choice on whether his life should end is the subject of mercy killing but how can he provide an answer if he is unable to reply? That is why mercy killing is a difficult situation. No matter what happens, the family would be ones to decide on mercy killing and only the doctor will have the authority to perform it (pulling the life support plug).

Hello Dassodils, My opinion is NO for MERCY KILLING. We have no right to kill anyone.If the person is in comma still there are chances that he/she may return to the normal condition anytime.How can someone decide that the person won't get OK so kill him/her its really rude to take this decision.

They do have a legal document that is just for this occasion. It is called a living will. If more people would fill this form out there wouldn't be bad feelings in this area. It just gives the person the opportunity to state legally whether they want to be revived if they are in such a situation.

Hi Dassodil's.. I think mercy killing or in some point Euthanasia will have it's positive and negative effects. As we all know that different people have different opinions. For me a person under coma and waived to be euthanize is not the same as killing the person, instead they are just letting him die naturally. Or others may say unplugged. But it depends on how you look at it. This is just my opinion.

Two days back i was reading newspaper and i read a news regarding this mercy killing.A mother named Lakshmama had approached court and asked the judge for mercy killing her son Janardhan.He is 36 years old and from couple of years he is on bed. He studied Aeronautical engineering and got a job in one of Australian firm,as he was going to banglore he met an acident and from that day onwards he could not do his works or do anything.

hi, for me mercy killing is still a killing, but this is more good rather than to electric chair,even in the hospital this mercy killing not really practice and not open,i mean they will never use it.

so, if it about GOD, you know if GOD always give HIM mercy's to all people in this world? even for who not believe with HIM? people, who have killing other,have a reason to do it. we don't know, just GOD know it. except for them who just kill for fun.

We had this common situation before in the case of my uncle, he was comatose and here body is not responding to any forms of improvement and medical reactions. The machine was the only thing that is making him alive and the doctor ask as this choice of mercy killing. We didn't want to execute euthanasia so we tried to keep him alive but as times pass by the hospital bills was running out from our pockets. His wife decided to have this euthanasia maybe because she had accepted the situation. She ask the doctor to let the oxygen to normally run off than to pull it out from my uncle. This is the only way to let my uncle die naturally without the act of anyone else. Euthanasia depends in every situation.