Allow voluntary euthanasia for those who have are immobile or have to depend at all times on others to help them.
This means that their life has reached a stage where the quality of life is no more and they needed help 24/7 just to exist.
They need not be in great pain or be at the end stage of an incurable disease.
Pills? But what is a lethal dose/combination? You'd think that info would be easy to find on the internet but I have searched and it it surprisingly difficult. Wouldn't want to be like those poor souls who botch the job and end up in worse shape than before and unable to try again.
Hanging? nah Drowning? god no Death by vehicular accident? Same problem as trying drugs, you may survive, and you may endanger others. Well, there is always gassing yourself with the car exhaust, providing you are still physically able to get yourself to the car and find a way to hook it all up.
Or we could just do what Oregon has done, offer a compassionate means to die painlessly for those who ask for it. I vote for that one.
This topic seems to constantly come up on this message board. Haven't we talked it to death already. No pun intended.
Compassion and Choices.. (I think)
you'd have to google them.
Assisted suicide is allowed in places such as Oregon. Maybe other states will allow it in the future. I personally find the idea distasteful for one reason -- it involves someone that will assist. I do wish that people had the means to end their own lives if they choose without involving another person. I know I couldn't assist anyone in killing themselves, so I wouldn't want to subject anyone else to that trauma.
I guess that is what Dr. Deaths are for. Kind of gives me the shivers thinking of doing that for a living, though.
I feel that each individual should be able to determine when they want to end their life, whether it's to to old age infirmities or a horrible debilitating illness at a young age. But the politics and policies of our time are driven by the fundamentalist beliefs that life begins at conception and only God should end a life, no matter how horrible and painful that life might be.
I wonder how many of the righteous who preach against hospice and assited suicide have ever had the family pet put to sleep humanely by a vet but 98 year old granny gets a feeding tube and no morphine.
I believe many folks feel like vulnerable people may be rushed into or cajoled into agreeing to end their own lives.