Is Human Euthanasia Humane?

Each case would have to be reviewed, but not for years. People in severe pain deserve respect and may not have years to live. If they feel that they do not want to be here on Earth any longer, why do we feel it is our right to tell them otherwise?

Mental diseases are being talked about more, which is great, but in the grand scheme of things people with mental diseases are NOT a group that should be allowed to consider euthanasia. 

I do not mean to say that it would not be possible at all, I mean...I am Bi-Polar, if I make it to 80 years old, but crippled up pain with no hope of seeing 81...let me go, please? I am not living then, I am a shell at that point.

Many people live with agonizing diseases for the rest of their lives and can cause constant pain. Some diseases cause people to say or do things they normally wouldn't do and many diseases need medications which have their own side effects that are debilitating.

Some people, as much as we would like to see them come out of a coma, will never walk amongst the flowers again, being brain dead means they will never be able to do the things they enjoyed before. Keeping them on life support in a hospital bed is for us, not for them.

If we are religious, the brain controls the organs which will not function without the machines. That is not life that is death on a machine, the spirit is already gone we are holding onto the shell, would a God want that?

To make someone live a life that is drug induced with pain pills so we do not have to say good bye is, in fact, cruel. To make someone’s body function on life support in a coma, waiting for that miracle that rarely happens, is for our own selfish benefit…not theirs.

Would we allow veterinarians to make an animal live a life of pain? Yes, a dog is an animal…so is a human, but many do not want to look at it that way…we walk on two legs and talk. Our brains work in better ways, some would say. I beg to differ on that sometimes, but I will not go there today.

Why would we allow those people, who we love so dearly, live in excruciating pain, which will never go away or is never going to be treatable in their lifetime, to live on more pills than the human body should take?

In some countries they will put people to death for murder or even less, but will not put those who suffer from excruciating diseases out of their pain…this makes no sense to me.

Whether it is to keep our loved one with us longer or because it is against our religion to “pull the plug” making a person endure agonizing pain because we cannot let go, because WE are scared of death, is wrong. 

Euthanasia is a choice that should be allowed to some that are in heartbreaking physical pain or respected when a living will has been prepared.

Families are too emotional to make life decisions and politicians are too unemotional, the only person that knows…is the person who is affected.