Euthanasia;Do you agree or disagree and why?

I agree 'cause it's not important how long you live but the quality of life. So why do you need to suffer if you can die serenely? on the other hand euthanasia causes a lot of ethical problems, for example catholics say that we don't have right to kill ourselves 'cause God has given to us the life. Besides someone could use euthanasia without the accord of their relative for opportunistic goals. Finally I think that the byological will could be a solution for everybody. Are you informed about Eluana Englaro' case? what do you think?

In that case I think that euthanasia has been the right solution and her father was very corageous.

I disagree. I would support assisted suicide, but I think each of us has a right to his own life and euthanasia takes this right away because someone else is making the decision.

But I would also support 'unplugging' people who are brain dead. This was the case with Terry Schiavo, she was dead, she was never coming back, her body was only being kept functioning by machines. In a case like that it was not really euthanasia to let her die.

Ideally we should all make our will known about end-of-life decisions. If a person is in a coma--alive but unconscious--he should have a spouse or close friend who can make his will known, whether he'd like to be kept alive if there is any chance of recovery.

Euthanasia for people or animals?

For people, yes. I wish that someone could choose to be euthanized if they didn't want to suffer anymore, but sadly, that's not the case.

With animals, I think some doctors go there too quickly. Animals don't have a choice in the matter. If a vet is completely 100 percent positive that the animal won't make it, then I say yes, use it. If not, everything should be done to save the animal first.

I have always considered Euthanasia to be assisted suicide, and I'm all in favor of that.(Though it can mean other things, like the Holocaust, which I would have been against.)

Sometimes, on the highway, I am in favor of euthanasia for the jerk who cut me off, but seldom for more then a moment or two.

I have often thought we should allow abortion into the three hundredth trimester for elected officials, but I doubt that will ever be allowed.

In it's most basic forms, however, assisted suicide and execution for convicted criminals, I am all in favor of it.

In the first case, because if we don't have the right to escape this nut-house, all the other rights seems ridiculous. (If we do open locations for this, they should always be attached to a Howard Johnson's.)

In the latter case, because I think some people are simply irredeemable, and much like a sick dog, they should be put to sleep. Not with malice, or anger, but simply to protect society.

Euthanasia was developed first in the US by scientist, and scientist generally don't believe in God and spirituality, so they look at humans like we are a piece meat. Killing ants with insecticide would be no different, only humans are much more conscious and suffer more than ants, and it's suffering that a human will experience in the afterlife, if they willingly cut the life that they were supposed to experience short in order to avoid physical suffering or to stop the hardship on those who take care of them.

In terms when the quality of life is reduced to a certain point then it is pure mercy to send them on to whatever awaits us on the other side. Whether it be levels of pain or reduced capacity it is wrong to keep a person alive beyond that point if it is not by their choice. If they are incapable of making that choice it is likely that in itself is a sign of such reduced capacity.

Of course such conditions must be perm and uncurable.

A second issue must be that there has to be a firm line as to what defines reduced capacity. The main opposition is that if the deff of reduced capacity can engulf temporal conditions and thus lives would be ended far before their time or that involuntary euthanasia would be used such as happened in Nazi Germany.

In the situation where the other option is a terrible painful death & the person chooses this I whole heartily agree. I would not let my pet suffer, why is my pet treated more humanely than a human being?

Agree, we are talking humans right? I feel if the person is in sound mind and will die soon anyway, from what ever they have, it should be their decision on when, not the disease. As some of them have horrible endings and it is more humane to let them go peacefully.

Disagree.

However, people should be allowed to die. People with no chance of a normal (thinking) life should not be put on life support.

Irrelevant whether I agree or not - it's a subjective matter, you need to make a decision based on your own moral core.