That's false, because, if you cannot heal, then you can treat the pain - that's called palliative and hospice care. Euthanasia and assisted suicide are ultimately part of that and thus should be legalized.
From the National Institutes of Health
What Are Palliative Care and Hospice Care?
What is palliative care? Palliative care is specialized medical care for people living with a serious illness, such as cancer or heart failure. Patients in palliative care may receive medical care for their symptoms, or palliative care, along with treatment intended to cure their serious illness. Palliative care is meant to enhance a person's current care by focusing on quality of life for them and their family.
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What is hospice care? Increasingly, people are choosing hospice care at the end of life. Hospice care focuses on the care, comfort, and quality of life of a person with a serious illness who is approaching the end of life.
At some point, it may not be possible to cure a serious illness, or a patient may choose not to undergo certain treatments. Hospice is designed for this situation. The patient beginning hospice care understands that his or her illness is not responding to medical attempts to cure it or to slow the disease's progress.
Like palliative care, hospice provides comprehensive comfort care as well as support for the family, but, in hospice, attempts to cure the person's illness are stopped. Hospice is provided for a person with a terminal illness whose doctor believes he or she has six months or less to live if the illness runs its natural course.
It's important for a patient to discuss hospice care options with their doctor. Sometimes, people don't begin hospice care soon enough to take full advantage of the help it offers. Perhaps they wait too long to begin hospice and they are too close to death. Or, some people are not eligible for hospice care soon enough to receive its full benefit. Starting hospice early may be able to provide months of meaningful care and quality time with loved ones.
Disagree. Mercy-killing someone in intense pain (physically or emotionally) is the humane thing to do, in my opinion. We do it for animals; why are humans any different?
To most people, human life is overrated anyway. Everyone pretends to give a damn in real life, but will gladly watch some videos online, halfway around the world, of Afghani kids getting drone striked with popcorn on their lap as they laugh at it. People only pretend to give a sh*t about human life, when the humans affected look like them. And that's the damn truth.
But I've never been one of these asshats to say "suicide is cowardly and selfish." That's the most privileged, pampered, first-world sh*t I can think of. You've clearly never had a single problem in your life if you're a person who thinks suicide is "cowardly" and that the random people in someone's life (who likely don't give two sh*ts about them) is more important than someone's own existence or that ending the pain once and for all is "cowardly." If you're someone who thinks that, go f*ck yourself.
But yeah, the truth is, some people cannot be saved, and prolonging their pain just because you have some childish, naïve, black and white morality, is stupid. The real world is more complicated than that.
Oh yes I agree. If it was legal, cheaper and more asscibbke where I live I would do it. It would be more painless then going through the thoughts of suicide plus trying to end your life yourself is never good by yourself. Your family will know either than you doing it alone by yourself in a room and being found weeks later
Oh, I agree it's fundamentally incompatible with a doctor's role as a healer, even though it becomes a philosophical conflict sometimes. If a doctor's role is to prolong life and alleviate suffering, they sometimes find themselves looking at cases where prolonging life does nothing more than prolong suffering.
Why is it that virtually everyone agrees it's the right thing to humanely put an animal down when it is incurable and in pain, but they won't do the same thing for a human being?
I think a person who is in incurable pain and has no quality of life, should be able to go peacefully if they are of sound mind and request it. I don't think anyone else should be able to make that decision for them.
The Hippocratic oath went out the window long ago. Doctors often do more harm than good. See how they mutilate the bodies of those who "identify" as the opposite gender. Look at the way push dangerous drugs and vaccines; the way they embraced the evil covid agenda, deadly protocols, and eugenics jabs; and the way they prolong people's suffering with horrific treatments just to squeeze the last bit of money out of them before they finally die.
The medical profession has become immoral. It's purely mercenary. So I laugh at the irony of the lie about "Do no harm".
“First, do no harm.” If living is more harmful than dying, then suicide is an effective way to mitigate harm. Also, doctors would have no obligation. Doctors turn away patients who can’t pay all the time. There is NO obligation on them to treat anyone, let alone an obligation to treat patients according to a patient-provided care plan. I don’t go to doctors anymore outside of emergency events because they NEVER treat according to my interests and intentions. It’s all pills now. Pills for everything all the time. As soon as there’s a saleable suicide pill, assisted suicide will cease to be controversial, guaranteed.
I (respectfully) disagree. There are times when the best medicine is to stop taking something, and when further care does nothing but prolong suffering. I don't think that means cheerfully whipping out a.44 and blowing someone away just because they tell you they're feeling depressed, but the idea of prolonging life when it's impossible to LIVE, just SURVIVE, is crueler than letting someone slip away. Quality of life matters much more than quantity.
Good comment. I went through this with my grandmother a few years ago, and my husband is currently going through this with his grandmother who is now in home hospice care. There comes a point where medical intervention can do nothing more, or the patient chooses to let nature take its course. When quality of life is gone, there isn't much left to live for. As long as we can keep our loved ones safe, clean, and comfortable in their final days, I can't make an argument for assisted suicide or euthanasia.
Euthanasia should be legalized. I'm pro choice and think a person shouldn't be forced to suffer when there's no curing their illness. It's legal for dogs, so why not humans?
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Disagree. A doctors role is yo. not cause unnecessary harm and treat as best they can. If a person is suffering and has no relief, they have a duty to end that pain.
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