Not sure where you live or how young you are but this is absolute nonsense. There are rules and regulations.As a doctor ii hope this isn't ever passed. I'd hate to have to kill someone because they want to give up on their life. Is there any way we can ever be sure that the person really wanted to die?
From my experience, all i see from allowing euthanasia is families killing people that are a burden (children with genetic diseases, old people,etc.).
- pain can be controlled with medications
- mental diseases is being better and better controlled with new approaches in psychiatric
- Cancer's complications are getting better treatment thanks to new radiotherapy and prosthesis
- Strokes can be more managed by physios and neurosurgeons
Maybe i'm jaded but i really can't see this being used for good; instead all i see is a legal means to kill someone. I don't want this on my conscience!
No. The governments of those countries should support the children. It's not our burden in the west.
As a doctor ii hope this isn't ever passed. I'd hate to have to kill someone because they want to give up on their life. Is there any way we can ever be sure that the person really wanted to die?
From my experience, all i see from allowing euthanasia is families killing people that are a burden (children with genetic diseases, old people,etc.).
- pain can be controlled with medications
- mental diseases is being better and better controlled with new approaches in psychiatric
- Cancer's complications are getting better treatment thanks to new radiotherapy and prosthesis
- Strokes can be more managed by physios and neurosurgeons
Maybe i'm jaded but i really can't see this being used for good; instead all i see is a legal means to kill someone. I don't want this on my conscience!
Yeah, don't go any where nearly daily fail, it's a cesspitMan am I glad that ERA is so much more progessive and intelligent than the god damn comments on daily mail articles! True cancer breeds there.
The trouble is that if qualified and accredited and insured medical professionals don't oversee people's "exits" then less scrupulous and unregulated parties can, and have, stepped in. Things get a lot murkier from there.Not sure where you live or how young you are but this is absolute nonsense. There are rules and regulations.
I can fully understand that you don't want too be there when people do this though.
Yes. But there are medical proffesionals who ARE willing to do that. And some aren't willing to do that. That's fine. But thank god we also have the people who are able to do this. This is already happening in some countries. For some time now.The trouble is that if qualified and accredited and insured medical professionals don't oversee people's "exits" then less scrupulous and unregulated parties can, and have, stepped in. Things get a lot murkier from there.
Absolutely. I can't think of a harder job than helping people to die, but hopefully the properly accredited people who are strong enough to do it recognise that they're providing a valuable service.Yes. But there are medical proffesionals who ARE willing to do that. And some aren't willing to do that. That's fine. But thank god we also have the people who are able to do this. This is already happening in some countries. For some time now.
I also think the medic can leave when all is explained to the people there.
As a doctor ii hope this isn't ever passed. I'd hate to have to kill someone because they want to give up on their life. Is there any way we can ever be sure that the person really wanted to die?
From my experience, all i see from allowing euthanasia is families killing people that are a burden (children with genetic diseases, old people,etc.).
- pain can be controlled with medications
- mental diseases is being better and better controlled with new approaches in psychiatric
- Cancer's complications are getting better treatment thanks to new radiotherapy and prosthesis
- Strokes can be more managed by physios and neurosurgeons
Maybe i'm jaded but i really can't see this being used for good; instead all i see is a legal means to kill someone. I don't want this on my conscience!
Ah okay. Not familiar with them.Absolutely. I can't think of a harder job than helping people to die, but hopefully the properly accredited people who are strong enough to do it recognise that they're providing a valuable service.
My comment about less scrupulous groups was specifically about people like Final Exit Network, which operate in a grey area I'm less than comfortable with.
Wow... this hits home hard. I also had Hodgkin and although all the chemo and radiation were pretty rough i can say they were effective in my case...Hey, I totally support doctors being able to refer euthanasia cases to another doctor if they don't agree or don't want that on their conscience. But, if I'm using myself as an example on your cancer point...
I already have a rare, but generally easy to cure cancer (Hodgkin's Lymphoma). But my type, no, it falls into the rare refractory group, where the standard treatments are ineffective. I've had my maximum allowed dose of radiotherapy in the region where it keeps recurring, I've had 5 different types of chemotherapy (and an anti-CD30 agent), and I'm on my second bone marrow transplant. I have paperwork in my bag for a clinical trial of what treatment options I have if I relapse again, which has only 10 patients. Things don't look good for me if this transplant fails, and the clinical trial can't get my disease back to remission.
There aren't really many advances in the field because, well, it's rare, and, in 90% of cases, simple to treat! But for us unlucky few, our options are limited, and, I'm running out of them. I can say, with all my heart, I do not want to be doped up to my eyeballs on pain medication, while my cancer strangles me from the inside out. I want my last days to be mine, to be how I choose them, to truly be able to live them, rather than merely exist on them.
The whole documentary really drives home the need for incredibly stringent regulations, but this is a good snippet that explains the kind of blurred lines I was talking about:
Wow... this hits home hard. I also had Hodgkin and although all the chemo and radiation were pretty rough i can say they were effective in my case...
Absolutely soulcrushing to read you have a type that just doesn't seem to react normally to the treatment. I can fully understand your stance on this and i hope your country is humane enough to let you do this when the time comes. I do hope that time doesn't come though and that there is still a way for you to be cured.
I truly wish you the best of luck.
It's ok for you as a doctor to opt out from having to carry out euthanasia. But your weak justifications to force people to continue a painful, suffering filled and/or otherwise shitty not-worth-living-anymore existence doesn't mean people shouldn't have the option to go through euthanasia when the alternative is not a humane life to live anymore. We can train/educate people who are willing to carry out the euthanasia, we can make it so that no one is forced to do it to anyone.As a doctor ii hope this isn't ever passed. I'd hate to have to kill someone because they want to give up on their life. Is there any way we can ever be sure that the person really wanted to die?
From my experience, all i see from allowing euthanasia is families killing people that are a burden (children with genetic diseases, old people,etc.).
- pain can be controlled with medications
- mental diseases is being better and better controlled with new approaches in psychiatric
- Cancer's complications are getting better treatment thanks to new radiotherapy and prosthesis
- Strokes can be more managed by physios and neurosurgeons
Maybe i'm jaded but i really can't see this being used for good; instead all i see is a legal means to kill someone. I don't want this on my conscience!
No. The governments of those countries should support the children. It's not our burden in the west.
Basically this. People should be allowed the right to die with dignity.Like, we euthanize animals on the regular when their health deteriorates to a point where we see it as there being no point to continue their suffering, why shouldn't humans themselves be able to decide when the pain, disability or whatever is too much and go on their own terms
As a doctor ii hope this isn't ever passed. I'd hate to have to kill someone because they want to give up on their life. Is there any way we can ever be sure that the person really wanted to die?
From my experience, all i see from allowing euthanasia is families killing people that are a burden (children with genetic diseases, old people,etc.).
- pain can be controlled with medications
- mental diseases is being better and better controlled with new approaches in psychiatric
- Cancer's complications are getting better treatment thanks to new radiotherapy and prosthesis
- Strokes can be more managed by physios and neurosurgeons
Maybe i'm jaded but i really can't see this being used for good; instead all i see is a legal means to kill someone. I don't want this on my conscience!