Should the Feeding Tube be Removed? Share Your Vote and Reasoning.

[hypatia]

Note...this poll echos polls taken nation wide..the results are about the same.

 

[Danger]

Note...this poll echos polls taken nation wide..the results are about the same.

But, I am sure, far more articulate and thought-out.

 

[Grace]

Originally posted by Evo:
I think euthanasia should be legalized in a case where it has been decided to remove a patient from life support. In this case it's a feeding tube. In other cases a machine is breathing for the patient, remove the machine that's breathing for them, they suffocate. A more violent death than starvation. As it has been pointed out, in starvation there is a euphoric state caused by food deprivation, in the remote possibility that one in the condition Terri is in could even feel it.

I believe that a person should have the right to die in cases such as this. I think it's horrible that euthanasia is not allowed. How can people object to legalizing euthanasia for these cases?

Last time I checked, Youth in Asia is fround upon, especially in China...

 

[Danger]

Last time I checked, Youth in Asia is fround upon, especially in China...

Went a long way for that one, didn't you?

 

[Grace]

Evo,

Euthanasia? Well, I'm not so sure about this concept. But, with the growing age of the American population and the almost daily advances in medical technology to keep terminally ill patients alive, there will be much debate over this topic in the future.

This is a rather good educational site I recently ran across which I thought provided good some information on end of life decisions which are being made by American families on a daily basis and give current state by state legislation regarding these issues.

http://www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=399

 

[Monique]

I think euthanasia should be legalized in a case where it has been decided to remove a patient from life support. In this case it's a feeding tube. In other cases a machine is breathing for the patient, remove the machine that's breathing for them, they suffocate. A more violent death than starvation. As it has been pointed out, in starvation there is a euphoric state caused by food deprivation, in the remote possibility that one in the condition Terri is in could even feel it.

I believe that a person should have the right to die in cases such as this. I think it's horrible that euthanasia is not allowed. How can people object to legalizing euthanasia for these cases?

The Netherlands was the first country to legalize euthanasia in extreme cases.

the euthanasia bill that was passed in 2001 and took effect in 2002, making the Netherlands the first country to legalize a practice it says is common but unstated in most Western countries.

Since then, Belgium has also legalized euthanasia, while in France, legislation to allow doctor-assisted suicide is currently under debate. In the United States, the state of Oregon is alone in allowing physician-assisted suicide, but its law is under constant challenge.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4901282,00.html

Ofcourse all actions should be backed by a board of doctors and an ethics commission.