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Euthanasia (from the Greek ευθανασία meaning "good death": ευ-, eu- (well or good) + θάνατος, thanatos (death)) refers to the practice of ending a life in a manner which relieves pain and suffering. According to the House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics, the precise definition of euthanasia is "a deliberate intervention undertaken with the express intention of ending a life, to relieve intractable suffering."[link]
It also appears someone made a plz stamp out of this, oh my:
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What many people fail to understand about right to die organizations is their inability to have empathy for the suffering. You may be a merciful person but once someone has a debilitating illness, their whole life turns upside down. You are like a vegetable waiting for a medical treatment with intensive care. Not everyone is rich or have many options. Many are quick to judge people who chose Physician-assisted death. Physician-assisted death MUST be legalized. I have watched many people slowly and painfully waiting for death, mostly begging for it with no one around. Some of them were single, divorced, have financial problems. Many doctors are against euthanasia because they lose their opportunity to analyze patients(Test subjects) to improve knowledge about illnesses. States do not want to legalize it because they will lose their workforce and mostly taxes. As for the religion, Noone can force you to die unless you have a clear, well-written will under guidance of a lawyer.
Modern industries failed us, medicine failed us, education failed us. At least, let us die in peace. We did not ask for the life.
If you are against it no matter the consequences, I wish you a long, slow and painful death until you realize what a dumb person you are. It is the ultimate right and a mercy. It MUST be done with their own will.
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Huh. Didn't know anybody else on Earth did.
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Passive euthanasia is legal in Finland, but dirrect euthanasia illegal.
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I'm sorry, but I don't.
Just like suicide, it's selfish. Life is full of hardship, but just because of a little pain,
doesn't mean you can give up your life permanently for a temporary problem. And if it's issues
such as disability or fatal diseases, it's still not right, because 1) you're asking a doctor, a person
who is supposed to heal you, to end your life for the purpose other than eventually, we're all going
to die, so why wait until that day? Let's all die today! Come on, it sounds illogical, and it is. It's simple.
Live, and let live.
Life isn't meant to be easy, but with enough strength, we can all find joy in it. Just my opinion, don't
get angry. I know it's not my choice, but it's neither yours to decide if someone's life isn't worth living
because of a sickness. Legalizing euthanasia is like telling the person, "You're right. You aren't worth it."
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legalizing euthanasia would be more like "Hey, you have control over your own life. You don't have to stay here in agonizing pain just because other people don't want you to die."
I know I'd rather have a doctor helping me end my life than live in pain and agony.
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Well its your opinion and I understand why you think that. But I do think it'll be better to HELP the person that's suffering to realize that this is physical pain, and not something worth killing yourself for. There are medical treatments for this disease and more options than the easy and permanent way out, which is death. What are you going to gain by killing yourself? Relief? Its irrational because by your terms, agony, which every human is suffering with mentally or physically in some point in their life, is a good cause for you to murder yourself and leave your family, the family that brought you into this world and are suffering just as much to see their daughter or son in pain than that daughter and son is, and just throw away your life because that pain is hurting you. We'd all be dead then! Death is never the answer and its very selfish to want to kill yourself without any consideration to anyone, because some curable disease or at least still treatable disease is causing some inconvenience. We were born for a reason and just like we didn't choose to be born, who says we get to choose our death? Our bodies are working to keep us alive because it still can so what's the point of killing ourselves when we are still fighting the battle? We have to let rational thoughts dictate us, not emotions. But we all have our opinions and mine is we shouldnt.
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Don't misunderstand me here. I don't mean people shouldn't keep fighting if there's still hope and it CAN get better and it can be treated and there's something that can be done. Turning to euthanasia shouldn't be a light decision.
But what if they can't get better. And there is no treatment. The things that cannot be fixed. Ever. If it's 100% sure all that person is going to have is pain and suffering for god knows how long until they naturally die. Is it then kindness to refuse them if they want to leave this world? I don't think it would be fair to force people who have no hope and no will to live in that situation to live just because someone else would be sad.
I think if this was a legal thing, and I knew someone with that kind of fate where all they are ever going to have is pain and no one can fix it, and they wanted it to be over, I would be sad. But I would also understand why they have decided it's their time to go and I hope I would remember it's their body, their life, and only they can dictate what happens. And they shouldn't stick around just because I will be sad when they are gone.
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I agree with you on most of these things, but euthanasia is basically degrading the meaning of life,
and if there is no treatment and it can't be fixed, than it's better to live life to the fullest and not center your
entire thoughts on the pain and suffering. It's not like you are the only one in the world who's
suffering; life has it's ups and downs, and it's better to look for the silver lining instead of focus your whole
attention on the disease and the darkness. I know it's their body, but it's not actually truly a personal choice;
first of all, you are asking the assistance of a doctor to kill you because you think life is not worth living,
and like I mentioned, your family will suffer once your gone. Just like suicide, it's selfish to think that you
can leave and not care that you're leaving a huge burden on your family, an even bigger one than the disease
that can't be treated because the death of a loved one is like a mental disease for that family that persists. I'm not very good with explaining
why I think it's morally wrong so I'll leave a link to someone who can:
www.theblaze.com/contributions…
Thanks for replying
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Thing is, what if someone is in a permanent coma or cannot do anything anymore due to something like Motor Neurone Disease and they're not only in agonising pain, but can't really live anymore. Like a situation where they're just in an infinite coma, an infinite void of darkness and pain so really, what's the point of keeping them alive if absolutely nothing ever anymore is going to come out of it, either for us or for them? How do you live your life to the fullest when you're in extreme pain and confined to a hospital bed, unable to do anything? At lease Stephen Hawking kept his senses and was able to still perform tasks like research and the like. What about the final months of Hisashi Ouchi? Was there any way he could have "lived life to the fullest" in his suffering? Some of the situations on this page are impossible to live through "to the fullest".
In such situations, life can sometimes actually turn into existence. Really, situations such as this are not really living. But that's just my view of it. It's kinda hard to explain.
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Here people like to use that word as a way to scare people into thinking it's government mandated murder and that even babies are targets.
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Oh hey this looks like a pretty cool stam- SEIZUREICONSEIZUREICONSEIZURE-
(but seriously though, good stamp)
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I had to choose euthanasia with my cat, to me it was more humane since he was old and had cancer. It was hard choice but I feel that I made the right decision.
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Great stuff. I support it and hope it is never abused.
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Thank you for this stamp!
Free Members also should use it if they like it. That's why now you have PLZ version:
Each part of PLZ version has credits to original stamp.
Please, put this code :iconeuthanasia1stampplz::iconeuthanasia2stampplz: into your Artist's Comments , so everybody can see it.
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Oh my, someone made a plz of it. I feel honored.
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Not in the meaningless way, but to end suffering definitely.
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Haha, I see no reason to keep people alive if they wish to end their own suffering and die with dignity.
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I've got a whole essay on supporting euthanasia. It's probably pretty outta date now though.
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