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Euthanasia - mercy killing
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by narina_san
on 2008-06-24 19:36:08
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Do you think that crippled and mentally retarted people should be annihilated or should they be let to live, draining costs and resources. Does assisting patients to their deathbed compromise the professional roles of healthcare employees? Must we kill people who are in pain to end their misery or sufferings?
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Re: Euthanasia - mercy killing
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by
 
on 2008-06-24 20:34:56 |
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WOW... a serious topic in Gendou... My question to Narina San is... why did you suddenly think about this? Annihilated is a strong word. Every life is precious and we are not GOD and thus have no right to take a live, be it other people's or our own. Even though they may be handicapp, they should also be given a chance to live their lives to the fullest. All of us will one day die... so why rush it? The only case I've heard so far regarding a patient given Mercy Killing is a very old lady who was battling Cancer for a long long time... she was at her last stage and waiting to die... yet the pain was so bad they had to give her morphine to sustain the pain... however, the drug soon loses it's use and she was suffering more then ever. It took the Docs a long time to finally agree with her mercy killing under her request. Regarding the cost and resources, I guess if we love our family enough, even if he/she is handicapp, we'll still want them to go on and be alive. So it basically depends whether or not the family want to sustain the life of the handicapp. PS: I'm not a very religious person but I do feel that life is something special... is not something one can get back after throwing it away.  |
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Re: Euthanasia - mercy killing
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on 2008-06-24 20:59:14 |
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What does death has to do with the youth in Asia?... poor kids, leave them alone ROFL, sorry about that... it was just a joke I heard somewhere. Moving on... This is a serious serious topic as Engel-san said. It's one of those topics were it's almost impossible to differenciate the right choice from the wrong one, you can only follow certain moral concepts that might help you think one of both options (help to die or leave it to fate) would sound less wrong (or something like that) Reading Engel's post, you can tell what I'm talking about, if you follow the religious explanation to it, you'll see their point of view and understand it's wrong to decide if other people should live or not (somehow it's my point of view too), we shouldn't do that. It's hard to explain but summarizing it's like: "if you wanna die, kill yourself but don't ask me to kill you". But then it's also a sin if you know that person is going to kill (him/her)self and you don't do anything to stop it... arrrgghhh, Religion is going to kill me XDD LOL. On the other hand, there is also the point of view that claims we could help to stop people from suffering if you make their life shorter, I won't say it's a wrong decission but remember it still means to kill someone. It's just definitely hard to proceed and make the right choice. you only live once, that's for sure, we have no freaking idea if there's something afterwards or nothing at all... so I say, let's just wait until it happens when it is supposed to happen, don't rush it, have you tried riding a bike while doing skydiving? try that first!!... lol   |
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Re: Euthanasia - mercy killing
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on 2008-06-25 09:56:15 |
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Let's say a child is born with a horrible disease that will reduce their quality of life significantly. In our society today, this child must be cared for. As long as it can live without direct medical intervention, the child may not be killed. This would fall quite universally under the category of murder. However, infanticide is practiced in many species, humans included. It seems entirely reasonable to me that the right to life applies to even the most severely disabled. The one exception being, as mentioned before, a person who requires direct medical attention in order to survive. They have already been dealt a death sentence, in a manner of speaking, so pulling the feeding tube does not constitute murder. My personal belief is that what makes a person human is their ability to think and communicate. A person with no means of thinking (brain damage, for example) or no means of communicating (in a coma, for example) has lost something critical for the enjoyment of life. Let's say an expecting mother is administered a blood test to screen for genetic diseases in the zygote. If the test comes back positive, and further testing reveals a devastating disease, then the mother may choose to re-roll the genetic dice. I see absolutely no harm in this. Let's say two people are planning a pregnancy together. It is advisable to take a screening for recessive genetic diseases. This way, if a significant risk for genetic disease is present, the re-roll penalty in the above paragraph can be prevented, as it is hard on the mother's body. Of course, this means selective in-vitro fertilization. For most people on Earth today, this is not an option for economic reasons. However, medical insurance companies will gladly pay this small fee to avoid the enormous expense needed to care for a sick newborn. 
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Re: Euthanasia - mercy killing
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Ummmmm...Gendou-sama, I think this topic has already existed. I remember posting several times on it. Hang on.... Found it. Here it is: http://gendou.com/forum/thread.php?thr=19396  --> |