It’s a complicated issue with lots of unsatisfying trade-offs. I’m personally conflicted about which path is better. It’s definitely not as simple as obvious as to which way is better that people want to imply.
It’s a complicated issue with lots of unsatisfying trade-offs. I’m personally conflicted about which path is better. It’s definitely not as simple as obvious as to which way is better that people want to imply.
The only major difference between the two worlds is that in one, death is grizzly, painful and traumatic and usually preceded by an enormous amount of suffering — and in the other death is none of those things.
You are clearly very naive and you clearly have never been in the position of needing to die.
Also, being in a "position of needing to die" isn't an absolute predicate for debating this issue.
I hope that your life improves and one day you can meet emphathetic people who do give a shit about others skin. Maybe that day, you can make good posts online.
I wouldn't care to argue that case-- I think assisted suicide should be legal, but the concern that the legality of it can lead to people feeling pressured into it seems quite legitimate to me.
Legally forcing people to live just to suffer is wrong.
How many people have you watched die? By the time you get to the point anyone is talking about hospice or refusing life saving care that person's life has been nothing but misery, pain and suffering for a while.
I'm not sick or anything right now but people who say things like this terrify me.
Everyone is going to have to depend on other people's judgement sooner or later, and by the numbers, most people still think there is some kind of soul or afterlife, or at least don't assume there isn't! The only protection from people like that is for there to be no mixed messages and no option for them to commit what they believe to be mercy.
The comment you are responding to is not asking for the option to decide if your life is worth living. It is asking for everyone to have the option to decide for themselves if their own life is worth living.
> I'm not sick or anything right now but people who say things like this terrify me.
Things like what?
To answer your question: numerous, with a multiple of that impacted in terms of the long painful witnessing of someone dying and/or carrying the emotional and physical burden of supporting the patient. Which is precisely why I am so conflicted.
Though I feel like your question was rhetorical and not an actual attempt to engage in understanding an alternate perspective.
Did you have the experience where people were talking about end of life care before the afflicted individual was ready to go, and you believe if euthanasia were legal they would have pressured the individual to go through with it?
I can't see it as complicated. The absence of a safe, legal exit for the terminally ill is unethical.
I understand that death affects more than just the individual passing, but that doesn't give anyone a right to force them to suffer.
If this issue is personal to you, I am sorry. It is for me as well.