Should euthanasia be legal around the world?

id hate the thought of some old man getting in trouble for helping his wife in her hour of need, whats the poor guy to do if she is begging

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I take it then, that most of the commenters are prepared to ignore religion!

Yes. What's the point of living if you're suffering more than you would by dying?

Yeah absolutly without a shadow of a doubt. It's cruel to keep people here if they're in pain. I'd hate to be a burden. xx

It should be absolutely legal.

Every human has a right to life, and, by extension, a right to end that life. The humane thing to do would be to facilitate that right in the least painful way possible.

Ah to be or not to be? I nay legalizing it regardless of consent because wanting to die is not the same as being on a two minute countdown to your death, in which you suddenly realize I WANT TO BE I WANT TO BE I WANT TO BE.

I used to think that it shouldn't, but after seeing the documentary on Jonny Kennedy (the Boy Whose Skin Fell Off) I changed my mind. He saw death as a comfort, and as a freedom, since he'd lived his whole life going through unbearable pain. I know that I wouldn't want to live if I needed to be trapped in bed, plugged into a machine. But I suppose some others might want to live regardless.

Some people are physically/mentally unable to consent, but if they were, they would probably want to die. Their loved ones might see that they'd be better off if their pain just ended, so I don't neccessarily think it should only be legal with the patient's consent.

My vote is for consent only.

euthanasia Assisted-suicide is legal in several jurisdictions, including Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland and three American states (Oregon, Washington, and Montana)
Although, I think it should be legal, only if it's Consensual. or if the person who isn't capable of making the Decision because their in a coma and can't be revived, someone should make the decision for them. A close family member or a doctor.

I'm for the idea of euthanasia, but working in health industry and having a certain level of understanding of it's implications I get worried about it's implementation. It's a really tricky area to cover properly. Depending on how you view things, there are to a certain level, degrees of euthanasia that already occur where I live even though it isn't strictly legal.

I don't think every country should be forced into adopting it if they don't want to though.

I think it should be legal around the world, though maybe not for coma patients. In the UK where I live, I believe patients are allowed to tell doctors that they wish not to be resuscitated should their heart stop, which is sort of a similar thing. I think a person should be allowed to tell doctors to allow them to die after a certain time in a coma.

The main argument against it seems to be that it would be abused, with inheritance-grabbing relatives persuading some poor old guy to allow himself to be killed. But in countries like Switzerland, where euthanasia is legal, there are very few or no cases this happening (so far as I know). So I don't really see the problem; although I feel for someone who feels they need to make this decision, I think it is their moral right to be allowed to make it.

We don't really do debating in schools here but it was introduced as some kind of experiment while I was there. Whenever a topic for debate came up, I always hoped I'd be picked (and picked for the side I believed in).

The two I got picked for were legalisation of euthanasia and banning violence on TV. For both, I realised I was pretty much equivocal.

I guess I'd support the legalisation of euthanasia but only with very stringent policing and background checks.