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Having said that, you would almost certainly be offered treatment at a hospice by a specialist in palliative care and they would treat as many or as few of your symptoms as you wanted.
Again, if you really couldn't cope, no one is stopping you taking your own life but I struggle to comprehend the assumption that the decision to end your life is validated if someone else is allowed to do it for you.
i have, and it's fucking horrible. especially if it's someone you love.
i'm all for euthanasia in those circumstances. i don't see it as any different than switching off life support machines, or stopping treatment.
if they are going to die anyway, and there's a good chance it's going to be a horribly traumatic, painful, drawn-out death, then it's not murder, it's helping them to die with dignity. it's what i'd want.
Yup, that's what it's like. Except turning off the machines is worse, because then they slowly suffocate to death, instead of lethal injection, like the stuff they use over in the states.
I understand with those who have concerns about the possibility of abuses regarding euthanasia. Every provision must be in place to ensure no lives are terminated where the patient might not have given his full consent (i.e. very old people). But in general principle euthanasia should be legalised, without a doubt.
Few people piss me off more in life than those who campaign for euthanasia to remain illegal for all of us based on their beliefs and "morals". :mad:
Though to be honest it would be possible for relatives of the person in question to do it... and in many cases for the person themselves. They just need to be provided with the necessary equipment/drugs needed, without the person who provided them being prosecuted for anything.
Incidentally, and this is the world's worst kept secret, doctors around countless countries around the world have been practising a form of euthanasia for years- namely the injection of a very large dose of morphine on very terminal patients (those who have days left at most). And thank god for such people.