Do you agree with/support the practice of euthanasia? Why or why not?

My body, my choice

If it's humane for pets it's humane for humans.

Depends on the context. For pets, absolutely. For people, it gets more complicated.

On the one hand, I’m all for bodily autonomy, and that has to include the right to die on one’s own terms. But on the other hand, particularly for people with disabilities/mental illness/etc., the matter of choice and pressure and prejudice comes up. Lots of disabled people have to hear abled folks tell them how poor their (the disabled’s) quality of life is or “must” be, to the point where there is literally a mainstream school of ethics [i]right now[/i] that says parents could murder their disabled children at birth and it would be a net good for the world.

You grow up with [i]that[/i] kind of messaging, with [i]those[/i] points of view, hearing respected academics saying you are a net loss, a net drain, and that the world would be better off if mom and dad had stomped on your skull right as you came into this world, and suddenly the concept of choice and autonomy for euthanasia starts to look a whole lot more like coercion, eugenics, and very passive-aggressive murder.

Ultimately, I have to come down on the side of free will, but that is predicated upon people not being treated like disposable waste from the moment they’re born.

It seems like a basic human right to me.

I do. I think people should have the option to have a dignified death. Prolonging a life riddled with incurable illness and pain just seems unnecessarily cruel.

I agree with it and support it.
People should be allowed to do whatever they want with their lives, including end it.

yeah. it shouldn't be the doctor making his own decision.

I'm a big supporter of living wills and medical power of attornies.

Nope.. I believe that quality palliative care can and does ease the experience of death so as to make euthanasia totally unnecessary..

I personally support it

Should be their choice

My body my choice right?

yessssss

I support it

maeve19 no i am pro life only way i might change my attitude slightly if a patient was on a ventilator and not going to wake up with discussion and permission from the family

We need more. It would solve population issues voluntarily!

I don't know. If it is not my thing.

No. Even though we've had various definitions of justifiable homicide in our society, none of them are based on life not being worth living. This is new.

I agree, parents shouldn’t be a burden on their children