assisted suicide in your country

New Zealand
February 4, 2007 5:38am CST
If you could change the law in your country, would you legalize the practice of euthanasia or assisted suicide? Why?
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• United States
4 Feb 07
Absolutely because there are so many people who suffer painfully and who are barely able to even live, much less enjoy life, yet because of the law they are required to drag on in misery. If it is the wish of the suffering and terminally ill to end things, they should have that option.
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• New Zealand
5 Feb 07
And that determination is not upto the individual in most countries. Sad!
@nw1911guy (1131)
• United States
4 Feb 07
Personally I think it should be ok. There are times when people can't just have a desirable quality of life. What if they are in excruciating pain?
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• United States
6 Feb 07
I will. Because the whole arguement is the quality of life not on how long you can live. I would rather pass on than live in a vegetative state. Imagine if you have to live with excruciating pain every single moment of your life. Although killing another human being is wrong (per 10 commandments), I would rather grant a person in pain's request to self-terminate than follow the status quo of people prolonging the suffering of these patients. As long as there is consent, then I'm in. as for coma patients, if they have a living will with instructions to self-terminate, then I would follow their wishes.
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
7 Feb 07
I would, but in very strict and limited cases. Those would be people with extremely painful and terminal illnesses who still have their mind to work properly, or people that are not about to die but have an illness with no possibility of healing that makes their life miserable, painful and lowers their own perception of dignity. In this last case, as in the first, a group of doctors and or psychologists should approve that euthanatia is correct and appliable, there has to be an extreme control.
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@iamtulip (13)
• India
6 Feb 07
Yes, I would support the cause for a terminally ill patient who ,medically speaking, hardly has a chance to get back to a healthy life ,but I won't support the cause for a physically healthy person suffering from chronic depression.In the latter case,the person needs hope and guidance and precedents where people have failed unlimited times but ultimately come out victorious.
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@bluring (31)
• Australia
10 Feb 07
Hell yes! I think that if you are dying anyway you might as well go out with dignity. I also believe in that if you give birth to a child that is not going to survive after 5 years or whateer if it is terminally ill euthanasia is the way to go. thats just my opinion anyway.
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@chiyosan (30183)
• Philippines
22 Apr 07
well i still think people have to die naturally and if we go for this, i think it is still killing.
• India
8 Jun 07
no i will not try to change it as i do not recognise the right of any one over his life, life is too valuable to let go, u should try till end no matter what
@soorimd (300)
• India
4 Feb 07
no way .i think i have responded to this sort of discussion
@MAX1966 (1029)
• Netherlands
5 Feb 07
i dont have to change the law. in my country it is legale
• China
7 Feb 07
I wouldn't,because I must be cautious not to make any mistakes ,and I don't know what such a law will bring about .
@Rittings (673)
6 Feb 07
I have answered something like this recently, and my opinion still is the same that it's difficult to answer unless you are witnessing someone's suffering first hand... I can't say that I could let any of my loved ones go if there were any chance that their lives could successfully be extended without suffering.. I really don't know. So sorry. Love and light.