Should euthanasia be made legal?

Should euthanasia be made legal?

Ok, this is from a while ago, but i was interested in what peoples views are about euthanasia.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/1880828.stm


Taking into consideration that euthanasia was made legal in Belgum and the Netherlands a few years ago, do you think it should be made legal in this country, if so why? Do you think it should still be illigal, if so why?

So long as it's well regulated and is only available to those who would be better off dead. I remember a case not so long ago that went to court because a lady felt she had a poor life. Cases like that particular one should be acceptable, but not, for example, a cancer patient. Some cancer victims may give up whilst they still have hope and even though this is far fetched, it would be easy to murder the patient and write it off a euthanasia. That would obviously be very unwelcome in British society. Get what I mean?

No. Nobody has the right to decide if another person should live or die. Doctors are here to save lives not take them.

When someone is terminally ill and wants to end their own life (i.e., voluntary euthanasia) it's all good in theory but it's where you draw the line that scares me.

Yea i know, there are arguments from bothsides, which is why i do think it should be allowed, but only in certain circumstances. The main reason why i do agree to voluntary euthanasia is because is it that imdividuals decision, and the reason i dont think non-voluntary euthanasia should be allowed is because you get greedy people - with no heart after peoples money. If euthanasia was to be made legal there could be a case where greedy relatives of someone who was ill( but might get better) wanted the ill relative to be killed so they could get their grubby hands on the relatives money etc.

Voluntary is fine and already proven good practice in places like switzerland where it is regulated and controlled> I agree doctors do not have the right to decide however if they have been asked to do so by a patient who has been proven to be mentally stable and has gone through the correct processes then yeah doctors should be fine to do it .

it's a tricky question. people may say 'yeah, if the patient agrees' but in certain states of illness it's know that you arent quite 'with it' and could be 'persuaded' to believe you would rather be dead. unless we could implement a system verifying the claims using COMMON SENSE, no.

Good to see a topic on this board create valid and justified opinions. Doesn't happen very often!

Many doctors do not want to do it! They see their jobs as preserving lives not taking them...

But arnt there jobs also to help take away pain? What if there wernt any painkiller strong enough to take a sick persons pain away and they were going to die anyways?

I believe in voluntary euthanasia. People with dibilitating, humiliating terminal illnesses, I feel should have the right to end their own life. It is, after all, thier own life. Who are we do decide they sit there suffering in agony.

I understand the need to regualte and control this, it could be all to easy for patients to slip through the net, but then how many already do?

From what I can gather it appears to work in other countrys, and it's not unknown for British patients to end their lives in the likes of Switzerland. Isn't it about time that the British government took another stance on the subject?

FACT: Suicide is illegal.

No shit sherlock

Yeah, you can get put away for it.

I don't make the laws mate I just abide by them (well, sometimes )..........

I ain't no legal eagle, but I think it's the act of 'attempted suicide' that you can get put away for.

I'm not sure, however, on the legality of sticking away some dead dude? So I kinda agree with CraigB on that1

If you do the job properly no need to worry about the law

Traditionaly you'd be buried in an unmarked grave and not allowed to be burried on consecrated (?sp) ground.

I think

Where is Joe when ya need him he'd fight my corner!

i rekon that if someone is terminally ill and suffering in any terrible way that it shud be their desicion wether or not they continue their lives.

What he said.

Only if they are in the right mental state to make such a decision tho.