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Voted : no, euthanization is never "humane"
We euthanize animals because we (or insurance companies) cannot or will not spend the kind of money we would spend to at least TRY to soothe a human's pain. It's a quick way to get rid of a "problem".
Voted : Depends
I think if an individual is terminally ill and wants to go out with some dignity, then I don't see anything wrong with that. The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, etc don't see anything wrong with that either.
With animals, sometimes we have to be the judge; and unfortunately the executioner if nothing else can be done. Otherwise it's just plain wrong.
"we should only euthanize veteranians who euthanize.
^Technically that wouldn't be euthanasia.
It might be humane to do so, LCD, but I'm waiting for the moment when someone, believing that someone, who's terminally ill and believing that he/she has no hope, decides to take this option, only to have the cure for what they were dying of come in the door a day later...
I've been dead, and I've had a doctor tell me that I was on the doorstep a dozen years ago. Where there's life, there's hope...
Voted : Depends
Only with careful controls to avoid abuse, like a living will.
The argument goes like this.
If we start killing humans, who decides which ones get killed and for what reasons.
First they start with defective people, then old, ugly people, then ethnic people, then poor people, then unemployed people, then people who don't believe in God, then people who don't pledge alliegence to the flag.
So once it because acceptable to to kill poeple for "this" reason, it will naturally progress to "other" reasons which are even LESS justifiable.
It will de-evolve into Genocide!
Voted : Depends
what skylab said
by mojo on Fri Aug 22, 08 2:12pm
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^^Grapost, yours was a very good comment. I beieve what you said could very well happen if euthenasia became a regular practice.
Voted : Depends
Only if there is absolutely no hope (someone on deaths door for instance who is undergoing chronic and extreme pain). And the decision to do so cannot be made by anyone other than the one about to die. But even then there's the possibility of it's practice 'hardening' people to the point of it being socially acceptable. After a while, it would become the norm to put 97 year old granny down because she has alzeimers and does nothing but sleep all day.
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