Do you support assisted suicide, euthanasia?

[ccharles000]

Poll question: Do you support assisted suicide, euthanasia?

Assisted suicide, the individual performs the critical action, whereas, in euthanasia, another person does it.

[Lakerstan]

1. Euthanasia as in letting go of something that has no chance of succeeding?

Like, for example, a political campaign?

OK OK, I'm sorry - it was just too easy. :evilgrin:

[The Diest]

2. It is "inHUMANE" to let our dog suffer in old age yet

uhh...."humane" to let humans suffer? I am referring to cases when death is inevitable, and the subject in pain.

[libnnc]

3. Really strange polls posted tonight

Bucket O' DU Flame-fest Greatest Hits.

Circumcision, euthanasia, death penalty...

make sure you don't forget to do one on breastfeeding and the Olive Garden. :eyes:

[FloridaJudy]

4. And pit bulls. And guns.

And especially pit bulls with guns.

[libnnc]

5. pit bulls with guns that breastfeed their circumcised pups at the Olive Garden

:wow:

[Vickers]

6. omg

Please tell me if they were wearing lapel flag pins.

[Lakerstan]

7. No, but I'm sure their Muslim racist preachers are

along with the Bosnian snipers...

[libnnc]

8. Call Congress RITE FUCKING NOW!!111elevens

No PINS. NOE PINNNSSSsszzzzz. :mad: :mad: :mad:

[arcos]

16. The question is... were they smoking? nt

[KitchenWitch]

12. While listening to 8 track tapes of Laura Branigan

[notesdev]

9. The only way to stabilize health care costs

is going to be to stop giving people expensive treatments at the end of their lives.

Something like 40% of all medical costs are incurred during the last 2 weeks of life.

We'll probably end up giving painkillers instead of massively expensive surgeries and other treatments.

It's sort of like euthanasia, but not really, so I picked 'other'.

[Eurobabe]

10. Absolutely. Death with dignity. I'll decide when I want to go

thanks for asking. :hi:

[question everything]

21. And then, there is the death with indignity

Some philosophers have expressed an opinion that the purpose of living is... living. That even living with pain is a worthwhile experience..

But as I saw my mother with Alzheimer's being a shell of herself, healthy otherwise, I had to ask: "what experience?"

My only fear is that by the time it is legal and I will sign such a request, that I may be considered "not of sound mind."

[EmeraldCityGrl]

11. The Death with Dignity initiative will be on the WA. ST. ballot this year.

[Fox Mulder]

13. Yes, I support both.

[Solly Mack]

14. Who would I be assisting exactly? 'Cause I could really be helpful

to certain people.

Compassion-fucking-squared

Just sayin'

[Beregond2]

15. LOL!

[Hekate]

17. We just put down our 15 yo lab-mix yesterday. Many tears, but let me tell you I want my vet at...

...my deathbed. Why should human beings have to suffer the torments of the damned when all hope is lost?

My veterinarian is a saint, as far as I'm concerned. We couldn't get the 90-pound old girl out of the back of the car, in part because it hurt her to move and in part maybe because she had figured out where we were. He sent out a plate of wet dog food laced with tranquilizers and that made her stop trembling. But she still snarled at one of the aides who came out to help us. So he said he was going to give her the first shot right there...

Dr. S told us to drive away and park in the shade of a tree someplace for the next 30 minutes. He said that this medicine would make her believe that she was a pup again, running free on green meadows. "We know this from the testimony of human addicts," he said, "and that's why I always use this method."

Her eyes started to close immediately, and her breathing slowed. With her head in my lap we stroked her ears and told her what a good dog she was. And we cried. She was so peaceful, and no longer in pain.

When we returned to Dr. S she was almost gone. He carried her into the clinic, gave her the second shot, and it took effect immediately.

I'm old enough to have lost quite a number of friends and relatives, and some of them have experienced a lot of misery before the end. Our culture -- and our stupid laws -- guarantee that pain treatment is quite erratic. God forbid a dying person should experience "addiction" to drugs. God forbid they should be given a treatment that actually makes them feel pleasure again for awhile.

When my time is near, just call in my vet.

Hekate

[alittlelark]

20. I'm so sorry to hear about your furbaby..

at least the end was gentle.
:cry: :hug:

[Bayousara]

18. I voted twice for Oregon's Death with Dignity Law

And I would vote for it yet again (hopefully we won't be having it on the ballot again).

[applegrove]

19. Yes but there need to be strict laws so nobody with a disability gets

pressured into committing suicide. And Euthenasia only when there is a living will.

[lightningandsnow]

22. No, not really.

Someone who is terminally ill and in extreme pain is one thing, but I feel that euthanasia/assisted suicide sends a strong message that the lives of people with disabilities are not worth living. And that's not a message I'd want to send.

However, I have a hard time with cases like this, because I do believe in personal liberties.