This post I have wanted to write for a long time. The reasons behind why I did not will become clear to you. Where my argument differs with most is that I have included depression as a reason for euthanasia. This is not meant to mean people who are simply feeling down, but more about people who are feeling down for months and have tried to work out their problems.
Imagine a world where if one is ill, disabled, too old, or simply living a life not worth living. They could go and sign up to be humanely put to death. Euthanasia, the act of killing someone or oneself painlessly, is a hard idea to debate. Should anyone who does not want to live be forced to live? Should they be forced to die in a painful way if they are ill? Should they be forced to have to result in painful unrehearsed ways of killing their self? By making euthanasia illegal and giving no one a way out of their troubled unwanted life. What ever the reasons surely they should be considered? What about people dying and thermally ill? Those people are not even allowed to end their own life. The only option they have is to ask not to be resuscitated if they do die.
Who chooses who can die and who can’t? If it was as easy as to go into a suicide booth and pay a fee or even for free, there would be a lot of people rushing into it. There would be young men/women who have broken up with their loved ones, or have lost people important to them. There may even be people who are simply bored and fancy trying it out. Whatever the reason that people have there should be a way of preventing people who could have their problems solved.
Sign up to die, suppose of a register that people who are ill get put up closer to the top than people who simply want to die because their dog has died. People who wish to end their life would put their name down and upon doing so would have to talk to a counsellor and part take in therapy. At times whist on the waiting list there would be check ups. Should the person wish to no longer kill themselves then they will be removed from the list. Should the feelings come back they would return to their place in the list. This is to prevent people saying on the list simply because they do not wish to start the process again. There should however be a minimum time spent on the list. Someone who wishes to stay alive on the day they would have been killed. They should have to go back slightly on the list. The problem is the list should not be too long or people would simply not bother with it at all. All people on that list should be added to the organ donor list to ensure their death is a help to others.
Currently there are a large amount of people who choose to commit suicide and end up doing it in painful and distressing ways. Hanging, this if done wrong can leave a person in pain for over 20 minutes, or even can cause the person to become decapitated. Slitting the wrists, this is painful, messy and not always successful. This can sometimes leave the person with ugly scars which will forever remind them and others of their failure to take their own life. Drowning, this is painful, not always successful.
These are just some of the ways people choose to kill themselves and we have not even talked about the ways where they could endanger others such as driving or gun related suicides. Should someone who has wanted to commit suicide for a long time really be given no nice option?
I did have more to write but feel this enough and welcome the unfriendly comments on their post. Below is a quote and some links for further reading.
Quote from Wikipedia “The closest thing to a suicide booth to have been actually constructed is the "Euthanasia Machine" invented by Philip Nitschke, consisting of software titled "Deliverance", which asks the patient a series of questions, and automatically administers a lethal injection if the correct answers are made. The system and questions are so constructed that the supplier of the machine cannot be held responsible for ending the life of the patient, who takes responsibility by operating it.”
Imagine a world where if one is ill, disabled, too old, or simply living a life not worth living. They could go and sign up to be humanely put to death. Euthanasia, the act of killing someone or oneself painlessly, is a hard idea to debate. Should anyone who does not want to live be forced to live? Should they be forced to die in a painful way if they are ill? Should they be forced to have to result in painful unrehearsed ways of killing their self? By making euthanasia illegal and giving no one a way out of their troubled unwanted life. What ever the reasons surely they should be considered? What about people dying and thermally ill? Those people are not even allowed to end their own life. The only option they have is to ask not to be resuscitated if they do die.
Who chooses who can die and who can’t? If it was as easy as to go into a suicide booth and pay a fee or even for free, there would be a lot of people rushing into it. There would be young men/women who have broken up with their loved ones, or have lost people important to them. There may even be people who are simply bored and fancy trying it out. Whatever the reason that people have there should be a way of preventing people who could have their problems solved.
Sign up to die, suppose of a register that people who are ill get put up closer to the top than people who simply want to die because their dog has died. People who wish to end their life would put their name down and upon doing so would have to talk to a counsellor and part take in therapy. At times whist on the waiting list there would be check ups. Should the person wish to no longer kill themselves then they will be removed from the list. Should the feelings come back they would return to their place in the list. This is to prevent people saying on the list simply because they do not wish to start the process again. There should however be a minimum time spent on the list. Someone who wishes to stay alive on the day they would have been killed. They should have to go back slightly on the list. The problem is the list should not be too long or people would simply not bother with it at all. All people on that list should be added to the organ donor list to ensure their death is a help to others.
Currently there are a large amount of people who choose to commit suicide and end up doing it in painful and distressing ways. Hanging, this if done wrong can leave a person in pain for over 20 minutes, or even can cause the person to become decapitated. Slitting the wrists, this is painful, messy and not always successful. This can sometimes leave the person with ugly scars which will forever remind them and others of their failure to take their own life. Drowning, this is painful, not always successful.
These are just some of the ways people choose to kill themselves and we have not even talked about the ways where they could endanger others such as driving or gun related suicides. Should someone who has wanted to commit suicide for a long time really be given no nice option?
I did have more to write but feel this enough and welcome the unfriendly comments on their post. Below is a quote and some links for further reading.
Quote from Wikipedia “The closest thing to a suicide booth to have been actually constructed is the "Euthanasia Machine" invented by Philip Nitschke, consisting of software titled "Deliverance", which asks the patient a series of questions, and automatically administers a lethal injection if the correct answers are made. The system and questions are so constructed that the supplier of the machine cannot be held responsible for ending the life of the patient, who takes responsibility by operating it.”
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bag
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_booth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_device
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide
And for those who don’t like Wikipedia links:
http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/IBFT/ibft038.txt Various ways to kill oneself.
http://aelinik.free.fr/suicide.htm
http://www.finalexit.org/
http://www.peacefulpillhandbook.com/
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