Euthanasia Question

[magdelaine]

This is a personal decision. As long as the individual is sane his wishes should be respected.

What about in the case of a child?

 

[JimG]

It is never permissible to directly intend to kill a patient. It is permissible to give drugs to reduce suffering, even if they hasten death. This is a long established Catholic moral principle. Well, not Catholic, but universal. The commandment “Thou Shalt Not Kill” was given by God.

We can never kill or intend to kill directly. We do not however, need to prolong suffering unduly by making heroic attempts to prolong life.

 

[elts1956]

It is never permissible to directly intend to kill a patient. It is permissible to give drugs to reduce suffering, even if they hasten death. This is a long established Catholic moral principle. Well, not Catholic, but universal. The commandment “Thou Shalt Not Kill” was given by God.

We can never kill or intend to kill directly. We do not however, need to prolong suffering unduly by making heroic attempts to prolong life.

This is a personal decision. As long as the individual is sane his wishes should be respected.

Give the definition of sane. Would you say a person experiencing severe pain is as sane as a healthy individual?.

 

[JuneBug72]

Give the definition of sane. Would you say a person experiencing severe pain is as sane as a healthy individual?.

Yes they can be lucid but not always.

 

[elts1956]

Yes they can be lucid but not always.

As lucid as a healthy person? I would think the pain would drive their decision.

 

[mapleoak]

This is a personal decision. As long as the individual is sane his wishes should be respected.

So, someone should simply be able go to the doctor to be euthanized as long as he is not insane?

 

[Squishy]

Ponder these:
Is it morally acceptable to kill ones neighbor? Why/why not?
Would you say it has to do with society in general being conditioned that such is wrong?

It would depend on weither or not his hedge blocked light to my garden!
But no i would say its not moraly acceptable to kill your neighbour, because we live in communities that look after the group as a whole. Its more benificial to live with a group of people who will watch each others back in times of crisis.

Assume the only two people in the world were you and your neighbor. Now would it be morally acceptable then that there is no ‘society’? Why/why not.

Thats a tough one, where the 2 born into such a world? The pressures they would face in everyday living would be unimaginable for us. From the conditioning that i have recieved i would say no. Because the benifits of living with more than one person far outweigh the negatives.

Assume there is only one apple, both of you need to eat. Would it be acceptable to kill your neighbor so that you get the apple?

Yes

If it were morally acceptable, should your neighbor then willingly offer himself to you to be killed, since if it is not wrong he has no reason to resist?

People are conditioned by their enviroment to survive. We slap names on this like morality ect. But in the end it comes down to what we will do in order to benifit us.

If he has reason to resist, is it because he believes it wrong for you to kill him?

See above

Which one of you is right? Either one is right and the other wrong, but both cannot be right.

You are making the assumption that both of them cannot be in the right. My argument is depending on social pressures they both can be right. Would you say its more ‘right’ for them both to die, the end of the species (well without women it would be anyway) because of your percieved natural laws?

Ultimately, Truth can only be absolute. That truth is unchanging is absolute.

Survival is what matters. And what drives us. Survival of what depends on the external pressures we face.

 

[antonabe]

The question at isssue here is whether we have the right to take the life of another person.The terminally ill person has had a relationship with God during the course of his life.If he has not had the opportunity of repentance it is possible that God would give him that opportunity in a fleeting moment before his death and we cannot prevent this from happening by shutting out his life.If we are Christians we know that we do everything in our power on earth or we should do so to attain eternal salvation in the life after death.If we have to suffer on this earth as someone said in this thread it is a means of purification in the pursuit of our goal.Euthanasia is wrong because we do not have the right to end another persons life as the time of birth and death is in the realm of our God and if man intervenes it is murder.