I think giving people that option is great. There should be protections in place to ensure it is not abused or used maliciously, but it should be an option.
We allow this option for animals we keep as pets and livestock. I see no reason that we shouldn’t offer a much needed reprieve from suffering to a person who will not improve and is suffering greatly.
It’s a slippery slope. There have been times in my life where I considered suicide but obviously never carried it out. I’m happy I didn’t because now my life is much, much better. While end of life services may feel right at the time they may not be right in the long run.
Of course this isn’t a black and white issue. If someone has some sort of cancer that’s torturing them I can understand the argument for end of life services.
My father in law chose to go this route back in August. He was 81 years old and in extreme pain with terminal cancer. We all miss him dearly but feel he made the right choice for himself.
It is literally the only humane option, and if you don’t believe that, then live with someone with dementia and/or a severe debilitating/painful/disorienting chronic condition.
Not being able to call it a day, and being forced to live for an indefinite amount of time against your will is utter misery, and honestly, for anyone who says otherwise, I hope you never have to find out first or second-hand how wrong you are.
I’m all for it. Obviously I feel they should see a psychiatrist or something before it is OKed. But if I’ve got a choice of going out horrible over a perhaps long period of time vs going out in my terms then I want the go out on my terms. Although one of the problems of course is mentally being capable of consent. I had a family member that suffered from Alzheimer’s they became quite suicidal during lucid points. And I feel there should be something that a person in their right frame of mind today can say if my mind slips I’m with ok with my mental decision on that matter if it comes up.
100% for it and glad to live in a country where we are open to it. MAID is not quite that, but it is an option. I’ve seen it done really well in hospital and out, and hope it remains an option for me when I get to that point.
I’d rather go on my own time, with a smile on my face, in good spirits, surrounded by people that care about me instead of wasting away to that of a weak, breathing skeleton, with those around me watching my slow inevitable death.
I think that while there are potential problems that could come up, being able to choose when to end one’s life in the case of terminal or chronic health problems should be considered a human right.
Depends on if you are liking for hospice level peaceful and of life options where the goal is to make transition easier and less traumatic, or if you are looking for euthanasia. I’m all for the first and nearly every hospital has that available if you ask for it (that DNR is a must: no one will just take your word for it, you must have the signed document). There are some religious-based facilities/professionals that are less willing to accept a DNR. As for active euthanasia options: no, cost of care will become a decision factor for some (not all, but enough).
Your life your choice, this only starts to get complicated when you are in a state of being unable to communicate what you want anymore, then who gets to choose?
What’s incurable for you and what’s incurable for Jeff Bezos are not the same. In practice any kind of system like this will devolve into barely sanitized eugenics
It’s a wonderful option and end to suffering and pain. It gives the patient power over something that they felt powerless over for sometimes years and years. And it gives closure to them and their families. Can’t advocate enough for it.
I support it. You who don’t support it, don’t know how horrible it’s to see someone fade away, being in constant agony without anything that can be done to help them. It’s also horrible to suffer like that, I saw a kid in constant pain, where he couldn’t even live life properly because of that pain. Sometimes Death is the most merciful option you can give to another human, for everyone involved.
In theory it sounds like a great option for people who are dying slowly and painfully to get a bit of peace at the end, in practice it would inevitably turn into eugenics. “The only procedure your state-provided medical coverage will pay for at this point is the Medical Assistance in Dying.”
Good. I think my grandmother put it best when she said ‘Muahaaaaahhhaaagh’ when I last saw her.
Fucked with Alzheimers, very little chance of living out the next few days (possibly a week according to a doc) & had recently had her rib cage cage cracked to get to her heart to revive her.
Anyone saying life is too precious to allow this needs to have a wander round the palliative care wards first.
Canada tried this and it led to hospitals and medical doctors pushing end of life on people to an insane amount as the process for ending people’s lives was very lucrative. Look up the scandals of their MAiD system, they started about 10 years ago and now there are a bunch of court cases and scandals coming out of it. Some of the examples are just dystopic, what started out as a good natured attempt to help specifically the people you eant to help, spiraled out of control due to profit incentive.
While emotionally I understand the situation, it feels like a very easy slippery slope that will kill those that could have still lived and found life. It gives hospitals an easy out to difficult patients, but also a means to financially benefit from their deaths.
Canada tried this and it led to hospitals and medical doctors pushing end of life on people to an insane amount as the process for ending people’s lives was very lucrative. Look up the scandals of their MAiD system, they started about 10 years ago and now there are a bunch of court cases and scandals coming out of it. Some of the examples are just dystopic, what started out as a good natured attempt to help specifically the people you eant to help, spiraled out of control due to profit incentive.
While emotionally I understand the situation, it feels like a very easy slippery slope that will kill those that could have still lived and found life. It gives hospitals an easy out to difficult patients, but also a means to financially benefit from their deaths.
Same way I think about abortion, which is, I’m 95% sure I’d never do it, but I wholeheartedly support it being medically available because you never know when your situation may change and it’s now necessary. I absolutely empathize with people in situations where they are considering either of these procedures, and my heart breaks for them.
Also, don’t turn this into an argument about abortion, it’s a very similar medical dilemma where lives/future lives are involved and just an opinion ❤️
I am offended by the notion that I am required to allow someone else to make the determination whether my condition qualifies as “severe enough”. I just fucking hate it here and I want to leave. But I’m not allowed this mercy because I’m deemed “just depressed” and because other people who have recovered from depression are glad that they didn’t die. Fuck them too. Fuck anyone who tells me I don’t have absolute rights over my own life.
100% think this should be an option for everyone at or close to end of life. Why do they make us go through the pain of stage 4 cancer, instead of comfortably assisting us over the edge?? It’s hateful and all about the $$ they get from insurance or the government to keep us alive for another day!
Sorry if I sound triggered, but I am a little! I have seen to much!
If a patient wants to go, then let them. If a hospital or medical staff can offer a peaceful death then I’m all the more for it. Let people die with dignity.
I’m glad we got the option to pull my parents from the machines. They both wouldn’t have survived much longer without the machines. It would have only been torture for my siblings and me and for my parents.
Am in Canada, where MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) is available and regulated.
I’m in my mid 40s. Guy I grew up with just had his wife (same age) undertake this option. She had undergone cancer treatment, but it came back and metastasized into her bones.
For those that are unaware, bone cancer is one of the most horrific ways that you can go. Excruciating pain, that not even the most powerful opioids can dull.
Instead, she was able to say goodbye to her friends and family, and pass peacefully with those friends at her side on a lovely spring morning. Was it hard on everyone? Yes. But it was far better than having your body ripped apart by bone cancer.
I would welcome this. I’m ready for this crap to be over. My kids would be very angry, but they don’t know what my life really is. I’m sure they would see such a decision as not caring about them, not loving them. That’s far from the truth. I used to share some of what I go through, but they thought I was being dramatic.
I am a hospice nurse. It is my life’s passion. My idea of a “good book” is something about dieing, death or grieving. I wish a program for end of life compassion was in place. I’d drive around all day offering hospice care and giving people medications to end their suffering. Of course, going through the proper medical approvals.
To be there with someone as they die is such an honor. Wish we had a more robust program to give people relief from their end of life suffering.
The way my mom tells it, it was definitely the right option for my great grandma.
She was diagnosed with cancer and had a few months left at most. The was only going to get worse. She was in her late 80s, and all her living family was in Norway, a 3h flight away.
It allowed her to plan for a peaceful death with a view of her favourite forrest and allowed her daughter, my grandma, to fly out and be there.
The only thing she missed was a few months in a bed, alone.
In contrast, my grandma on the other side of the family didn’t have that option. She spent her last two months in so much pain she couldn’t enjoy anything and just slept most of the time. I didn’t recognise her the last time I saw her. She was a strong woman and a former nurse with a sharp wit. By the end, she was a bearly mumbling, skeletal old lady stuck in a sterile hospital, and I wish I never had to see her that way.
I agree this should be an option as long as 2 Doctors agree and either the patient or family agree, but no life insurance payout because it was a choice and more importantly to prevent greedy people from making this decision for the money.
If my dog is in pain, I can choose to have them put down. But if I am, I’ve just got to sit around and wait for an even more painful end? That’s not right.
As someone with chronic health issues, lots of pain, and a less than stellar quality of life, I’m all for it.
I’m not there yet, but in the next few years, my life really won’t be worth living. I should be allowed to call it after a lifetime of illness and struggle.
Human euthanasia should be legal.
We allow it for our pets because we don’t want them to suffer before they die but somehow we’re okay with allowing humans to suffer?
100% behind it if the request is by the patient, either at the time or by advanced directive.
I watched a relative die of Alzheimer’s. My fondest wish is that I could set a particular stage of the disease where I could call it a day, because once I reach that stage, I would not have the wherewithal to do so.
Unfortunately, that means I will have to take the reigns myself, which will mean doing so years before I would really have to.
My aunt had skull cancer, was told they could get it all and she could live 20+ more years. They removed a large part of her skull, she could barely talk properly and was scarred heavily. They in fact did not get it all, and it moved to her brain.
Instead of dying 6 months later in pain and who knows how else it would effect her, she got to go peacefully after smoking a cigarette(she didn’t smoke till after the brain cancer cause why not), drinking some nice whisky, and went peacefully while talking to my grandmother in her own home. My grandma didn’t even realize she had gone.
It was the greatest treatment she probably received since the original diagnosis, especially considering she had to watch her husband go from leukaemia
I think we should all be offered the option to choose to end our life peacefully.
I’m 31 but there’s a very high likelihood I’ll end up with dementia and I am not spending my older years like that. To spend so many years just suffering when I could choose an out? Absolutely I’ll choose to not go through it.
I also have incurable cancer which has limited options drug wise and I still feel I should be given a choice of how I’d wait to die.
When my father needed euthanasia, I was relieved to be living in a country where this was possible. It makes no sense to make it legal to relieve your pet from sufferring, but you have to see grandma in a deteriorating inhumane untreatable condition, just because….
Let people choose dignity.
Euthanasia does not lead to more dead, it reduces suffering.
Something has to happen, because at the moment we offer the most egregiously pointless treatments and investigations to people who don’t want them, can’t refuse them, and will not benefit from them, purely to placate our weird culture where death is the only remaining taboo.
Our population who are old, frail, exhausted, sick and gradually fading; we need to learn how to kindly and gently say goodbye and let them go.
Peaceful? Only for terminal patients? Booooo, I say! Bring on the Futurama suicide booths! (joke)
Serious answer, I think it’s good. People argue that assisted suicide is selfish, but what’s selfish is forcing someone to exist in agony just so you don’t have to miss them sooner. It’s torturing someone at length just to put anothers mourning on temporary hold, and that ISN’T good.
I am all for it as the daughter of someone who has incurable cancer. I’m for anything to make the end more comfortable after fighting so hard for so long.
If you’ve ever had someone beg you with all sincerity to kill them because they can’t do another day in the pain that they suffer, and you know that their condition is incurable and they’ve cycled through all the meds and pain relief available and none of it works, then you’d know how utterly selfish it is to expect these people to carry on just because it might make others feel uneasy to allow them to die.
I used to be on the fence, I could see the reasons for but also some of the concerns for abusing it. Then, I spent 4 months taking care of my grandma on hospice and realized I just had to keep her comfortable while she slowly dehydrated and starved to death. Then those of us who took care of her had to defend ourselves to other family members who accused us of overdosing her on purpose.
Tammy I fucking WISH I could have done that while you pittered around her house not doing anything! BTW, Tammy, why were you at her house packing up valuables while the rest of us were at the funeral? But no, lets make sure everyone is focused on who gave the last dose of morphine, how sleep deprived they might have been, and how much it actually was. Yeah, that’s the important part.
I’m pro-euthanasia, worked in a nursing home for too long not to be.
I do wonder though, how you all feel about euthanasia for children. I live in Belgium, and kids have been allowed to ask for more than a decade now.
The rules are much, much stricter for a kid than for an adult though, their parents or legal guardian has to give their permission, as well as the consent of a paediatric psychologist, situation has to be terminal, and they have to be conscious and of sound mind.
There’s no minimum age, afaik, but they’re obviously not going to allow a 4yo assisted suicide.
firmly believe that you should be allowed to die how you want. If you’re of sound mind and want to make an end-of-life medical decision, that’s your right.
I’m from the Netherlands, where euthanasia is legal. It’s a complex process to have it approved, but it’s a things.
Recently it was also approved for mental suffering without any outlook for a cure or massive improvement in life quality.
I’m all for it. I have always said, if I catch a disease that can’t be cured, I want to go out on my own time. I don’t want to put my family through seeing me suffer, and I don’t want to suffer myself. Give me a peaceful death while I am still mentally there.
In theory it’s a great idea, but you have to be really fucking careful and put in a lot of regulations or it will be abused. One of the ugliest times when it comes to family is when there’s a death and inheritance money is on the line. Throw in “if grandpa ends it now, we’ll get the money sooner” and it’s even uglier.
Would love the option. Would give me the up and go to get everything sorted by the determined date, then could go into the hospital get euthanised, depression cured!
As a chronic pain patient, with no cure, and each year bringing on more issues with more pain, I would support it. One stipulation I’d suggest would be to keep all politicians out of any of the decision making.
It should be an option for everyone, whether ill or not. I’m a firm believer there should be places people should be able to go to end their lives if they wish. Its nobody else’s business.
I’m here for it honestly. I also remember when my grandmother was on her last legs how frantic we were to keep her. She lost all higher brain function. She never even recognised me ever again. I just wanted two more minutes with her but she died before we got to the hospital. These are the two wars I go through in my head every time I see this question posed.
In principle, I support the idea. But in a profit-driven healthcare system like ours, it would be abused. We’re not mature enough as a country to handle it responsibly. The same system and “professionals” that fueled the opioid crisis shouldn’t be trusted with assisted suicide.
About a month ago, on a sunny Sunday morning, we all gathered in my father-in-law’s hospital room. We talked and made jokes and said goodbye, much cheerier than I’d imagined.
He’d been given a 0% chance to survive, with an estimated three months to live, four months prior. He was close but probably had another three weeks of some of the worst pain known to man otherwise, in addition to hallucinations, a complete lack of dignity, and other problems.
His last words, other than consenting to the procedure, were a joke. Then the doctor gave him a comically large syringe full of Valium which allowed him to relax for the first time in ages, then propofol to put him to sleep, and then something else to finish the job. We paid our respects and shuffled out.
I’ve witnessed a number of deaths due to cancer, and they were all completely horrific. The “dying” part of this one was still pretty bad, but the death itself brought peace, not just to FIL, but to the whole family too.
I’m ok with it as long as they aren’t doing it as a way to get your organs, I wholeheartedly believe if someone doesn’t want to be here anymore it’s their choice and the healthcare system should make it easier for them instead of making things difficult and unsafe…
I’ve never seen the way that people can suffer towards the end, but I’m not ignorant of the reality. There are, inevitably, situations where medical intervention would no longer be effective or offer any improvement to quality of life. I would want people to have that option available to them; even if they don’t take it, the fact that they can have control over SOMETHING in regards to the way their condition has gone can be medicine of its own kind.
I believe that if we don’t have the right to end our lives, then we are born into de facto slavery. Therefore, I am passionately in favour of people having a way of accessing reliable and humane ways of ending their life. They shouldn’t require to have a severe and incurable medical condition to do it, either.
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I’m glad that they offer it
The best thing, at least people don’t have to suffer to see their slow painful tragic end.
I think giving people that option is great. There should be protections in place to ensure it is not abused or used maliciously, but it should be an option.
Have inoperable aggressive rare cancer. The last line of defense cancer drug stopped working.
I am all for it.
btw thanks Reddit for making the last few years of treatment more endurable.
100% support it.
As someone who is disabled, I’m absolutely in favor of it. We should be able to live our lives with dignity, and end them the same way
We allow this option for animals we keep as pets and livestock. I see no reason that we shouldn’t offer a much needed reprieve from suffering to a person who will not improve and is suffering greatly.
It’s a slippery slope. There have been times in my life where I considered suicide but obviously never carried it out. I’m happy I didn’t because now my life is much, much better. While end of life services may feel right at the time they may not be right in the long run.
Of course this isn’t a black and white issue. If someone has some sort of cancer that’s torturing them I can understand the argument for end of life services.
I hope if I ever get to the point I can’t take care of my basic needs, and or remember my family I can get this.
My father in law chose to go this route back in August. He was 81 years old and in extreme pain with terminal cancer. We all miss him dearly but feel he made the right choice for himself.
It is literally the only humane option, and if you don’t believe that, then live with someone with dementia and/or a severe debilitating/painful/disorienting chronic condition.
Not being able to call it a day, and being forced to live for an indefinite amount of time against your will is utter misery, and honestly, for anyone who says otherwise, I hope you never have to find out first or second-hand how wrong you are.
I’m all for it.
That’s the way it should be.
The right to die with dignity should be standard everywhere. Watch “How to Die in Oregon” for some perspective, it’s an incredible documentary.
I’m all for it. Obviously I feel they should see a psychiatrist or something before it is OKed. But if I’ve got a choice of going out horrible over a perhaps long period of time vs going out in my terms then I want the go out on my terms. Although one of the problems of course is mentally being capable of consent. I had a family member that suffered from Alzheimer’s they became quite suicidal during lucid points. And I feel there should be something that a person in their right frame of mind today can say if my mind slips I’m with ok with my mental decision on that matter if it comes up.
100% for it and glad to live in a country where we are open to it. MAID is not quite that, but it is an option. I’ve seen it done really well in hospital and out, and hope it remains an option for me when I get to that point.
I’d rather go on my own time, with a smile on my face, in good spirits, surrounded by people that care about me instead of wasting away to that of a weak, breathing skeleton, with those around me watching my slow inevitable death.
100% for it. We should all be allowed the dignity of leaving this life peacefully and on our terms.
I think that while there are potential problems that could come up, being able to choose when to end one’s life in the case of terminal or chronic health problems should be considered a human right.
Depends on if you are liking for hospice level peaceful and of life options where the goal is to make transition easier and less traumatic, or if you are looking for euthanasia. I’m all for the first and nearly every hospital has that available if you ask for it (that DNR is a must: no one will just take your word for it, you must have the signed document). There are some religious-based facilities/professionals that are less willing to accept a DNR. As for active euthanasia options: no, cost of care will become a decision factor for some (not all, but enough).
I disagree with this.
Sadly I’ve met too many doctors who would extend this to people in order to avoid actually treating them.
That’s true, even when it starts as being for “severe, incurable conditions”, it always gets expanded beyond that scope.
100% for it.
Your life your choice, this only starts to get complicated when you are in a state of being unable to communicate what you want anymore, then who gets to choose?
I’m not a disabled person and I support this option.
Will need voting panels and physician opinions to avoid family and inheritor abuse.
If it doesn’t get twisted into some Oliver Twist classist shit I’ll be surprised.
Oh you don’t have money to pay your bill? Thereby guaranteeing you a horrible life? We can help!! Just end it.
What’s incurable for you and what’s incurable for Jeff Bezos are not the same. In practice any kind of system like this will devolve into barely sanitized eugenics
In theory it’s great, but I think it can go sideways with greedy capitalism really quick. Also if you are religious, that can play a part as well
Suicide should be considered an absolute human right for every single person regardless of medical status.
It’s a wonderful option and end to suffering and pain. It gives the patient power over something that they felt powerless over for sometimes years and years. And it gives closure to them and their families. Can’t advocate enough for it.
Sounds like Canada , but it’s coming and should be debited.
I support it. You who don’t support it, don’t know how horrible it’s to see someone fade away, being in constant agony without anything that can be done to help them. It’s also horrible to suffer like that, I saw a kid in constant pain, where he couldn’t even live life properly because of that pain. Sometimes Death is the most merciful option you can give to another human, for everyone involved.
In theory it sounds like a great option for people who are dying slowly and painfully to get a bit of peace at the end, in practice it would inevitably turn into eugenics. “The only procedure your state-provided medical coverage will pay for at this point is the Medical Assistance in Dying.”
Good. I think my grandmother put it best when she said ‘Muahaaaaahhhaaagh’ when I last saw her.
Fucked with Alzheimers, very little chance of living out the next few days (possibly a week according to a doc) & had recently had her rib cage cage cracked to get to her heart to revive her.
Anyone saying life is too precious to allow this needs to have a wander round the palliative care wards first.
Once you’re 18. Sure.
This is basically what hospices are for. Many hospitals have a hospice wing.
Canada tried this and it led to hospitals and medical doctors pushing end of life on people to an insane amount as the process for ending people’s lives was very lucrative. Look up the scandals of their MAiD system, they started about 10 years ago and now there are a bunch of court cases and scandals coming out of it. Some of the examples are just dystopic, what started out as a good natured attempt to help specifically the people you eant to help, spiraled out of control due to profit incentive.
While emotionally I understand the situation, it feels like a very easy slippery slope that will kill those that could have still lived and found life. It gives hospitals an easy out to difficult patients, but also a means to financially benefit from their deaths.
Canada tried this and it led to hospitals and medical doctors pushing end of life on people to an insane amount as the process for ending people’s lives was very lucrative. Look up the scandals of their MAiD system, they started about 10 years ago and now there are a bunch of court cases and scandals coming out of it. Some of the examples are just dystopic, what started out as a good natured attempt to help specifically the people you eant to help, spiraled out of control due to profit incentive.
While emotionally I understand the situation, it feels like a very easy slippery slope that will kill those that could have still lived and found life. It gives hospitals an easy out to difficult patients, but also a means to financially benefit from their deaths.
Same way I think about abortion, which is, I’m 95% sure I’d never do it, but I wholeheartedly support it being medically available because you never know when your situation may change and it’s now necessary. I absolutely empathize with people in situations where they are considering either of these procedures, and my heart breaks for them.
Also, don’t turn this into an argument about abortion, it’s a very similar medical dilemma where lives/future lives are involved and just an opinion ❤️
We have that option for our pets, and if we don’t go through with it we’re seen as cruel owners. Why should we not offer ourselves the same kindness?
I am offended by the notion that I am required to allow someone else to make the determination whether my condition qualifies as “severe enough”. I just fucking hate it here and I want to leave. But I’m not allowed this mercy because I’m deemed “just depressed” and because other people who have recovered from depression are glad that they didn’t die. Fuck them too. Fuck anyone who tells me I don’t have absolute rights over my own life.
100% think this should be an option for everyone at or close to end of life. Why do they make us go through the pain of stage 4 cancer, instead of comfortably assisting us over the edge?? It’s hateful and all about the $$ they get from insurance or the government to keep us alive for another day!
Sorry if I sound triggered, but I am a little! I have seen to much!
I don’t mind it until the hospital starts using it as a treatment because your healthcare is too expensive. Already happening in Canada :/
Hell yeah 👍
If a patient wants to go, then let them. If a hospital or medical staff can offer a peaceful death then I’m all the more for it. Let people die with dignity.
I’m glad we got the option to pull my parents from the machines. They both wouldn’t have survived much longer without the machines. It would have only been torture for my siblings and me and for my parents.
Am in Canada, where MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) is available and regulated.
I’m in my mid 40s. Guy I grew up with just had his wife (same age) undertake this option. She had undergone cancer treatment, but it came back and metastasized into her bones.
For those that are unaware, bone cancer is one of the most horrific ways that you can go. Excruciating pain, that not even the most powerful opioids can dull.
Instead, she was able to say goodbye to her friends and family, and pass peacefully with those friends at her side on a lovely spring morning. Was it hard on everyone? Yes. But it was far better than having your body ripped apart by bone cancer.
I would welcome this. I’m ready for this crap to be over. My kids would be very angry, but they don’t know what my life really is. I’m sure they would see such a decision as not caring about them, not loving them. That’s far from the truth. I used to share some of what I go through, but they thought I was being dramatic.
I’m pro it being an option. You should have to speak to a Councillor or similar maybe a week or two before.
im all for it. we do it for our pets. we could at least do it for our humans.
Why not?
100% for it!
I am a hospice nurse. It is my life’s passion. My idea of a “good book” is something about dieing, death or grieving. I wish a program for end of life compassion was in place. I’d drive around all day offering hospice care and giving people medications to end their suffering. Of course, going through the proper medical approvals.
To be there with someone as they die is such an honor. Wish we had a more robust program to give people relief from their end of life suffering.
The way my mom tells it, it was definitely the right option for my great grandma.
She was diagnosed with cancer and had a few months left at most. The was only going to get worse. She was in her late 80s, and all her living family was in Norway, a 3h flight away.
It allowed her to plan for a peaceful death with a view of her favourite forrest and allowed her daughter, my grandma, to fly out and be there.
The only thing she missed was a few months in a bed, alone.
In contrast, my grandma on the other side of the family didn’t have that option. She spent her last two months in so much pain she couldn’t enjoy anything and just slept most of the time. I didn’t recognise her the last time I saw her. She was a strong woman and a former nurse with a sharp wit. By the end, she was a bearly mumbling, skeletal old lady stuck in a sterile hospital, and I wish I never had to see her that way.
I agree this should be an option as long as 2 Doctors agree and either the patient or family agree, but no life insurance payout because it was a choice and more importantly to prevent greedy people from making this decision for the money.
It just makes sense.
If my dog is in pain, I can choose to have them put down. But if I am, I’ve just got to sit around and wait for an even more painful end? That’s not right.
As someone with chronic health issues, lots of pain, and a less than stellar quality of life, I’m all for it.
I’m not there yet, but in the next few years, my life really won’t be worth living. I should be allowed to call it after a lifetime of illness and struggle.
Human euthanasia should be legal.
We allow it for our pets because we don’t want them to suffer before they die but somehow we’re okay with allowing humans to suffer?
Totally fine. I was almost diagnosed with one of those conditions not so long ago.
100% behind it if the request is by the patient, either at the time or by advanced directive.
I watched a relative die of Alzheimer’s. My fondest wish is that I could set a particular stage of the disease where I could call it a day, because once I reach that stage, I would not have the wherewithal to do so.
Unfortunately, that means I will have to take the reigns myself, which will mean doing so years before I would really have to.
Should’ve been happening decades ago
Needs more spectacle.
Suicide is a human right
i think it’s brilliant and 100% a sign of proper evolution.
I’m terrified of not being able to end my life this way in these conditions. There are fates worse than death, IMO. Same deal for dementia.
*Canadian medical system has entered the chat*
My aunt had skull cancer, was told they could get it all and she could live 20+ more years. They removed a large part of her skull, she could barely talk properly and was scarred heavily. They in fact did not get it all, and it moved to her brain.
Instead of dying 6 months later in pain and who knows how else it would effect her, she got to go peacefully after smoking a cigarette(she didn’t smoke till after the brain cancer cause why not), drinking some nice whisky, and went peacefully while talking to my grandmother in her own home. My grandma didn’t even realize she had gone.
It was the greatest treatment she probably received since the original diagnosis, especially considering she had to watch her husband go from leukaemia
I think we should all be offered the option to choose to end our life peacefully.
I’m 31 but there’s a very high likelihood I’ll end up with dementia and I am not spending my older years like that. To spend so many years just suffering when I could choose an out? Absolutely I’ll choose to not go through it.
I also have incurable cancer which has limited options drug wise and I still feel I should be given a choice of how I’d wait to die.
When my father needed euthanasia, I was relieved to be living in a country where this was possible. It makes no sense to make it legal to relieve your pet from sufferring, but you have to see grandma in a deteriorating inhumane untreatable condition, just because….
Let people choose dignity.
Euthanasia does not lead to more dead, it reduces suffering.
Shit for this just put me in a cabin with food beer and some smoke and call me lost
I think it’s a good thing
Something has to happen, because at the moment we offer the most egregiously pointless treatments and investigations to people who don’t want them, can’t refuse them, and will not benefit from them, purely to placate our weird culture where death is the only remaining taboo.
Our population who are old, frail, exhausted, sick and gradually fading; we need to learn how to kindly and gently say goodbye and let them go.
Peaceful? Only for terminal patients? Booooo, I say! Bring on the Futurama suicide booths! (joke)
Serious answer, I think it’s good. People argue that assisted suicide is selfish, but what’s selfish is forcing someone to exist in agony just so you don’t have to miss them sooner. It’s torturing someone at length just to put anothers mourning on temporary hold, and that ISN’T good.
I am all for it as the daughter of someone who has incurable cancer. I’m for anything to make the end more comfortable after fighting so hard for so long.
Nope. Violation of the oath.
If you’ve ever had someone beg you with all sincerity to kill them because they can’t do another day in the pain that they suffer, and you know that their condition is incurable and they’ve cycled through all the meds and pain relief available and none of it works, then you’d know how utterly selfish it is to expect these people to carry on just because it might make others feel uneasy to allow them to die.
If the patient and their loved ones have been properly consulted and all had agreed to it being the best option, I see no reason against it.
I used to be on the fence, I could see the reasons for but also some of the concerns for abusing it. Then, I spent 4 months taking care of my grandma on hospice and realized I just had to keep her comfortable while she slowly dehydrated and starved to death. Then those of us who took care of her had to defend ourselves to other family members who accused us of overdosing her on purpose.
Tammy I fucking WISH I could have done that while you pittered around her house not doing anything! BTW, Tammy, why were you at her house packing up valuables while the rest of us were at the funeral? But no, lets make sure everyone is focused on who gave the last dose of morphine, how sleep deprived they might have been, and how much it actually was. Yeah, that’s the important part.
I’m pro-euthanasia, worked in a nursing home for too long not to be.
I do wonder though, how you all feel about euthanasia for children. I live in Belgium, and kids have been allowed to ask for more than a decade now.
The rules are much, much stricter for a kid than for an adult though, their parents or legal guardian has to give their permission, as well as the consent of a paediatric psychologist, situation has to be terminal, and they have to be conscious and of sound mind.
There’s no minimum age, afaik, but they’re obviously not going to allow a 4yo assisted suicide.
It’s crazy as an advanced civilisation we let so many people suffer unnecessarily.
Good in theory but there would need to be a lot of oversight to ensure it isnt abused and the patient is in a state of mind to make the decision
They already do. It’s called palliative care, and it’s pretty good. I wish this was more honestly discussed when this topic comes up.
firmly believe that you should be allowed to die how you want. If you’re of sound mind and want to make an end-of-life medical decision, that’s your right.
I wish chronic depression counted
We have it now. It’s fantastic. My father will ultimately need it. Beats starving to death.
Patient choice
I’m from the Netherlands, where euthanasia is legal. It’s a complex process to have it approved, but it’s a things.
Recently it was also approved for mental suffering without any outlook for a cure or massive improvement in life quality.
I’m all for it. I have always said, if I catch a disease that can’t be cured, I want to go out on my own time. I don’t want to put my family through seeing me suffer, and I don’t want to suffer myself. Give me a peaceful death while I am still mentally there.
In theory it’s a great idea, but you have to be really fucking careful and put in a lot of regulations or it will be abused. One of the ugliest times when it comes to family is when there’s a death and inheritance money is on the line. Throw in “if grandpa ends it now, we’ll get the money sooner” and it’s even uglier.
Would love the option. Would give me the up and go to get everything sorted by the determined date, then could go into the hospital get euthanised, depression cured!
As a chronic pain patient, with no cure, and each year bringing on more issues with more pain, I would support it. One stipulation I’d suggest would be to keep all politicians out of any of the decision making.
We do it for pets and call it “humane”
Why won’t you do it for your loved ones?
It should be an option for everyone, whether ill or not. I’m a firm believer there should be places people should be able to go to end their lives if they wish. Its nobody else’s business.
I’m here for it honestly. I also remember when my grandmother was on her last legs how frantic we were to keep her. She lost all higher brain function. She never even recognised me ever again. I just wanted two more minutes with her but she died before we got to the hospital. These are the two wars I go through in my head every time I see this question posed.
I’m all for it.
In principle, I support the idea. But in a profit-driven healthcare system like ours, it would be abused. We’re not mature enough as a country to handle it responsibly. The same system and “professionals” that fueled the opioid crisis shouldn’t be trusted with assisted suicide.
It’s already happening, defacto. Certainly in the UK.
Love it. Hell, offer it for anyone sick of this slaving meat-wheel.
Free humans should have the option to die when/ how they want.
About a month ago, on a sunny Sunday morning, we all gathered in my father-in-law’s hospital room. We talked and made jokes and said goodbye, much cheerier than I’d imagined.
He’d been given a 0% chance to survive, with an estimated three months to live, four months prior. He was close but probably had another three weeks of some of the worst pain known to man otherwise, in addition to hallucinations, a complete lack of dignity, and other problems.
His last words, other than consenting to the procedure, were a joke. Then the doctor gave him a comically large syringe full of Valium which allowed him to relax for the first time in ages, then propofol to put him to sleep, and then something else to finish the job. We paid our respects and shuffled out.
I’ve witnessed a number of deaths due to cancer, and they were all completely horrific. The “dying” part of this one was still pretty bad, but the death itself brought peace, not just to FIL, but to the whole family too.
I’m ok with it as long as they aren’t doing it as a way to get your organs, I wholeheartedly believe if someone doesn’t want to be here anymore it’s their choice and the healthcare system should make it easier for them instead of making things difficult and unsafe…
I’m all for it.
I’ve never seen the way that people can suffer towards the end, but I’m not ignorant of the reality. There are, inevitably, situations where medical intervention would no longer be effective or offer any improvement to quality of life. I would want people to have that option available to them; even if they don’t take it, the fact that they can have control over SOMETHING in regards to the way their condition has gone can be medicine of its own kind.
Disagree, offer it for everyone
I don’t wanna be hooked up to a bunch of tubes waiting to clock out. Shit, let me do it myself at that point. I don’t want to waste away.
It’s the humane thing to do. People should have the option to stop overwhelming pain with some sense of control and dignity.
I believe that if we don’t have the right to end our lives, then we are born into de facto slavery. Therefore, I am passionately in favour of people having a way of accessing reliable and humane ways of ending their life. They shouldn’t require to have a severe and incurable medical condition to do it, either.
I hope we all get the choice of euthanasia if we are mentally capable at the time of making that decision for ourselves.
100% for this!