Should assistant suicide be allowed for old age ???

[Fang]

I had a close relative 84 years old last year tell us adamantly she wanted to die while she was in the hospital with heart trouble. She was repeating this over and over to us and the doctors. Today, she’s doing very well with the right medication and adamant she wants to be around to see her grand children grow up. Gotta be careful with this.

 

[MarathonMike]

It should be an option for cases of irreversible brain damage, cancer, or extreme pain.

 

[rightwinger]

I had a close relative 84 years old last year tell us adamantly she wanted to die while she was in the hospital with heart trouble. She was repeating this over and over to us and the doctors. Today, she’s doing very well with the right medication and adamant she wants to be around to see her grand children grow up. Gotta be careful with this.

That is why a patient should not make their decision on their own

 

[EvilCat Breath]

That doesn't happen. Hyperbole dismissed.

What does happen is worse. They are allowed to die with food and water being withheld. Long before someone starves to death they would be dehydrated to death. A long process and one of the most painful ways to die that there is.

 

[pknopp]

What does happen is worse. They are allowed to die with food and water being withheld. Long before someone starves to death they would be dehydrated to death. A long process and one of the most painful ways to die that there is.

No one is permitted to just painfully die.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

No one is permitted to just painfully die.

Have you looked at the case of Terry Schiavo? That's just the one we know about. The medical providers wanted my roommate to die like that. I stopped them.

 

[pknopp]

Have you looked at the case of Terry Schiavo? That's just the one we know about. The medical providers wanted my roommate to die like that. I stopped them.

I am aware. There is a difference in whether people should be kept alive or killing them.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I am aware. There is a difference in whether people should be kept alive or killing them.

There is no form of euthanasia that doesn't end up in murder.

 

[pknopp]

There is no form of euthanasia that doesn't end up in murder.

I disagree. There is a difference in artificially keeping someone alive and killing them.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I disagree. There is a difference in artificially keeping someone alive and killing them.

What is withholding nutrition and hydration?

 

[pknopp]

What is withholding nutrition and hydration?

I fully addressed my position.