What are your thoughts on euthanasia (medically assisted death)?

@PatientlyWaiting25 I watched my mother die from cancer, slowly wither away over a four month period and in excruciating pain. She was begging for her father to help her end her life in the end. Sadly he didn't. I have agreed with my wife if we were ever in a similar situation it would be different.

@MrAverage1965 it's so sad, sorry you had to go through that. There should be good options for pain relief these days. I know you are not Christian but I think for many reasons and not just from a spiritual viewpoint, euthanasia is not a moral choice.

@NativePortlander1970 I will ignore your vicious bigotry and only say that people have value, all life has worth and even when there is suffering we learn something. Is death a better outcome than a medical coma until nature takes its course?

@NativePortlander1970 can't answer my question with anything but another insult? Come on think hard, just don't injure yourself 💋

@NativePortlander1970 I'll take it if it makes you feel good for a moment or two. They are not suffering if in a medical coma. Also where do we draw the line? How do you determine what is"debilitating"? Just curious, what makes you think I'm fake? Or are you just firing a different kind of insult this time?

@PatientlyWaiting25

Actually, we do not have medical knowledge to keep people comfortable, as evidenced by @MrAverage1965 describing how his mother endured excruciating pain from cancer in her last 4 months of life with none of that alleged "medical knowledge" being offered to her.

If that so-called "medical knowledge" you seem to be convinced is lying out there somewhere and made readily available to cancer patients whenever requested, then did it not cross your mind that suitable medication would have been prescribed to MrAverage's mother by her Physician if she were in state of intolerable pain and suffering?

@swirlie it's there but it may not be being used, that is a totally different issue to the rights and wrongs of euthanasia.

@PatientlyWaiting25
The rights and wrongs of euthanasia are not for evangelicals nor non-traditional medical practitioners to decide between.

It's between the person suffering the excruciating, incurable pain who decides, in consultation with their lawyer and their physician.

If that pain medication was available as previously described, it would have been used on the woman in question. The reason MrAverage's mother was begging for medically assisted death was because pain mediation specific to her illness is not available.